The time when the earth was young and everything used to be primitive and simple and let’s say better than they are now, men and women were stronger. This is because the food was available in the purest form and there were no diseases. The fruits were larger, sweeter and rice, the staple diet of the Indian people was of larger grain.

A man could only manage to eat one grain, i.e. rice and led a simple lifestyle due to the fact that in those days the people never had to toil collecting the rice, for, when ripe, it fell from the stalks and rolled into the villages, even unto the granaries. Upon a year when the rice was larger and more plentiful than before, a widow said to her daughter “Our granaries are too small. We will pull them down and build larger.”

When the granaries were being made ready for use, the rice were already ripe and it came rolling in where the work was going on. And the widow, infuriated, struck a grain and cried, ‘”Could you not wait in the fields until we were ready? You should not bother us now when you are not wanted.”’

As a result, the rice broke into thousand pieces and then the reply came “From this time forth, we will wait in the fields until we are wanted,” and since then rice has been of small grain, and the people of the earth started gathering it into the granary from the fields.