A History of Agriculture in India v1.c24.15

v1.c24.15

Investigations by Soviet linguists V. Abayev, V. Ivanov and others show that the words for *a four-wheeled cart, wheel, yoke, pole, road, bridge, stake, cart, oxen, horse* are the same in all the Indo-European languages. The plough is called *krish*, both in Sanskrit and Persian. Agriculture is called *krishi*. It is clear from this account that the disintegration of the unity of the Indo-Aryan tribes took place after they had domesticated the horse and learnt to use the plough, the cart and the chariot.