A History of Agriculture in India v1.c26.s3.7

v1.c26.s3.7

When one examines the shapes of painted grey potteries, one is struck by the persistence of some designs even in the present. Some potteries and dishes recovered from Hastinapur are shown in Fig. 155. The pot, with a narrow neck, is the present-day *garbi*, now manufactured in bronze metal. The small cup in the foreground is the *katori*. The flat dish in the centre, resembling a *thali*, is suitable for eating rice. Commenting on such dishes from Swat, B.K. Thapar states, ‘This type is very convenient for eating rice and its occurrence in Period III accords well with the literary evidence for rice seems to have been mentioned only in the later Vedic literature.’³