Write a note on the Later Vedic period in detail.
Write a note on the Later Vedic period in detail.
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- The Later Vedic period is dated around 1000-600 B.C.E. The treatises of the period give information about this period.
- This period saw the spread of Later Vedic from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to the Vindhyas in the south.
- A story in the Satapatha Brahmana bears evidence of the Later Vedic period settling and bringing land under cultivation from west to east.
- The Later Vedic period saw a gradual formation of the confederacies of the Vedic villages. They were known as ‘Janapadas’.
- Generally, the seniors and the elites in a Janapada collectively took social decisions.
- They functioned like oligarchic states. These slowly expanded into Mahajanapadas.
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