Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t3.129

c6.t3.129

The Greek ambassador at the Court of Chandra Gupta—Megasthenes—a contemporary of the author of Arthaśāstra, pays² an eloquent tribute to the abundance of crops in India, to the fertility of the soil, to the absence of famine and the peculiar respect in which agriculture and the agriculturists were held. Even at the time of war the combatants used to leave the agriculturists undisturbed as a matter of duty.