Life in the Vedic Age

Life in the Vedic Age:

1. The Aryans at first settled in the Punjab.
2. Two epics of ancient India are - the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
3. Barley was widely grown and later on wheat and rice were also grown.
4. The horse is an animal which was not native to India and was brought in by the Aryans from Iran and Central Asia.
5. In the Vedic Age metal workers now had a new metal to work with - Iron. The use of-iron made life easier. The use of iron in India in 1000 B.C. from Magdha Dynasty.
6. The collection of good saying (Suktas) written in the praise of god and goddesses are in Rig Veda.
7. The Aryans lived in tribes and their language was Sanskrit and worshipped the nature.
8. In this period most famous Grammarians, ‘Pataini’ wrote famous Sanskrit grammar, ‘Astadhyayi’.