Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t4.1

c6.t4.1

“The master who gets the soil cultivated either by himself or in co-operation with others reaps the full harvest, and next the man who gets the same done by others, himself standing with umbrella spread over his head (i.e., without taking part himself), and the man who sits at home and takes care of his soils thence (i.e., who takes only a theoretical care of his soil) is fated to a life of penury."