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 614 PBAPHULLA OHANDBA BASU they settled down in Frisis they slrey knew the rudiments of agriculture. But agriculture by s noma- dic tribe, living in one place for two, three or five years, cannot develop much, and the more scientific more efficacious and the of the cannot strip of the favorable to the predominant agricultural. But soil and develop in system of intensive culture alternating cultivation with faow such s state. The ever shifting were which German mark-land could not have been such progress. It is uncertain whether element in when they to Frisis was came to s life pastoral or Britain the of agriculture the war of already settling down continned unabated even when conquest was going on with the stubborn but retiring Welsh. Yet even now psstrsl life was not the least important aspect of thei busy life. So, it need not urprise us if we find that the Indo-Arysns in the ge of the Rig Veda were pssborsl but st the same ime expert agriculturists, having individual ownership of land and not varying plots. They knew the soil by artificial means, had and used to manure their natural arts lands qualifies of of fertilizing the irrigation system for the purpose of improving the The process of sowing and reaping the threshing and the winnowing as well measuring the corn, all testify progress that they had achieved the soil. the crops, as their to the means for amount of even in the time of the Pig Veda. The Monsoon It will indeed be interesting as well as important to learn all these in detail as far as it is possible to know them from the Rig Veda. It is not exactly certain whether aspects of the the they were acquainted with all the Indian monsoon, which is even now only crux on which  fruitful cultivation of the