An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s18.53

v1.c9.s18.53

The geographical position of Gujarat on the w. sea board assisted in the establishment and growth of entrepots and BHARUCH, NAGARA, Hathab, VERAVAL, DWARKA and other centres where the goods coming from the w. were exchanged for the local products with those collected from the hinterland. The goods gathered at these centres moved in the interior through the old centres like JOKHA, DHATVA or the new establishments like KARVAN, Ajabpura, Sanand and AMRELI, all indicating the internal trade routes. The commercial prosperity is reflected in the brick houses, use of fine ceramics, imported materials and donation and creation of religious monuments. The people seem to have arranged large-scale dinners cooked in hearths dug into the ground. Grains like rice and *Rodrava* were used; animals like the deer, *nilgai*, domestic sheep, cattle and fowl were killed for food. Along with commerce town-planning, house-building, public works as well as ceramics, ivory and shell-work, mining, metallurgy and agriculture were flourishing.