Economic Life in Early Vedic Age

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The life of the Rigvedic Aryans was distinctly rural. The village with its pastoral and agricultural land formed the unit of the Rigvedic economic life.

The cattle occupied a position of great importance. Values of commodities or lands were determined in terms of cattle.

Agriculture was the main occupation. Ploughing of land and reaping of java (barley) was done and there was also to a crude system of irrigation.

Hunting too was one of the approved, though subsidiary means of livelihood. Read more

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