Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.1366

c4.1366

The Ṛgveda gives great importance to agriculture. Areas under cultivation were called Urvara and ‘Kṣetra’. Fields were ploughed by attaching six, eight and even twelve bullocks to the plough. Water was taken from hradas and Kulyakas (ponds and tanks) for the purpose of irrigation. Agriculture was a very familiar art to them. They used to cultivate all sorts of grains and grams including yava. They conducted trade by the exchange of goods generally. There is a reference in one place of the use of a coin ‘Niṣka’