I should have also thanked Manish Walvekar for his help which was sent to me 
personally.

Howard

> On Aug 8, 2023, at 1:06 PM, Howard Resnick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sincere thanks to Greg and Dominik for these references.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Howard
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2023, at 12:51 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It may not answer your quantitative question, Howard,  but two recent 
>> articles that address relevant issues, by Fred Smith and tom Trautmann, are 
>> published in 
>> 
>> Fleming, Christopher T., Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Anuj Misra, and Vishal 
>> Sharma, eds. Science and Society in the Sanskrit World. Sir Henry Wellcome 
>> Asian Series. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.
>> 
>> namely, 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 19:19, Howard Resnick <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Dear Scholars,
>>> 
>>> Are there any reliable estimates of land use in ancient India, especially 
>>> in the main areas of Northern India where Mahābhārata events take place? I 
>>> am especially interested in relative precentages and locations of land 
>>> reserved as forests, or great forests (mahā-vanāni), and land actively 
>>> farmed. Nowadays it seems that in the North Indian plains there are 
>>> precious few great forests.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for any resources, especially links to relevant maps.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Howard
>>> 
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