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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 2 — Chapter VI · SOME RURAL FESTIVALS AND CEREMONIES.

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The respect paid to ploughing is illustrated by the early Vedic legend of Sîtâ, who, like the Etruscan Tago, sprung from a furrow.2 It is only in a later development of the story that she becomes the daughter of Janaka, and wife of Râma Chandra.

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