Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c9.24

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c9.24

Agricultural Science, ——its beginnings, 188-197; in Atharvaveda, 192-197; in Rigveda, 188-192 ——its development during Maurya period, 198-206; Arthaśāstra, 198-202; Aśoka, his edicts, 205; Manu, 206; Megasthenes, his fragments of Indika, 202-205 Amarakosha on Agriculture, 217-219; apparatus and implements, 219; soil, 217, 218 Concluding remarks, 220 General observation, 187 Khanā's maxims, 210-216 ——general maxims governing the conduct of the cultivators, 210, 211; ploughing the land for crops, 213; predictions as to the influence of timely and untimely showers upon the crops, 211, 212; selection of the soil, 212, 213; sowing and planting, 214-215; reaping, 215-216 Kriṣi-Parāśara, a treatise on Agriculture, 207-209 General conclusion for three books, 223-225

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