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.
What, Cyrus?
Cyrus was delighted to hear this and said:
Now what can be the reason of that, Socrates?
Manusmṛti
Farming, criticized in the text as harmful to living creatures despite being a common livelihood.
They think agriculture is a good thing, but that livelihood is condemned by the good;
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.
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.