Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (6.1988/1991)

Fig. 1. The plough by Parasara (after a sketch from the Krsisasana) □ Der Pflug beschrieben von Parasara.

THE KRSISASANA
THE MANUAL OF AGRICULTURE:
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLOUGH-TYPES

By
Gyula Wojtilla

The Krsisasana is a manual of agriculture in
Sanskrit with a Hindi commentary compiled
by Dasarathasastri in 1909. The text was prin-

ted in Nagpur in 1920. Being an extremely
rare book it almost escaped the attention of
students of Indian culture. Dasarathasastri