Agriculture
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
farming · agriculture · farm · art · calling · cultivation · grazing · harvesting · husbandry · planting
in the texts
Economics
Agriculture is the best and most honorable occupation for a gentleman, producing livelihood, bodily training, civic courage, social goods, and order.
But you told me that you have discovered the reasons why some farmers are so successful that husbandry yields them all they need in abundance, and others are so inefficient that they find farming unprofitable.
For they say that he pays close attention to husbandry and the art of war, holding that these are two of the noblest and most necessary pursuits.
I swear by the Sun-god that I never yet sat down to dinner when in sound health, without first working hard at some task of war or agriculture, or exerting myself somehow.
Manusmṛti
Farming, criticized in the text as harmful to living creatures despite being a common livelihood.
But a farmer may, at will, having produced them himself by agriculture, sell pure sesame seeds for the sake of Dharma, if they have not been kept for long.
They think agriculture is a good thing, but that livelihood is condemned by the good;
But a Brāhmaṇa or even a Kṣatriya, even while living by the livelihood of a Vaiśya, should diligently avoid agriculture, which is largely dependent on violence and is dependent on others.