Question

Discuss briefly the development of religious ideas and rituals in the vedic age. Do they show any parallelism with the religion of the Indus civilisation?

Answer 1

differences and similarity between vedic and aryan civilization. main differences is that vedic society was probably ruled by traders ,and had given high prefernce to the trade nd commerce as had developed trade relations with mesopotamia and far west and then they followed pictographic script while aryans used sanskrit and gave high reverence to war booty and therefore they were excellent chariot riders.social difference in the vedic as well as in the vedic times were there as prominent from mohenjodaro site that there was uppper citadel had a great bath and lower citadel and which was sepaytered by the wall and then city was a planned one and had surplus economy while aryan civilizaTION WAS greatly that of surrounded by cattle wealth while they were traders .political structure of the ivc is not known but aryans had the admonostrative unit as jana, as mainly a tribal culture paying allegiance to the jana, while ivc was a urban economy with surplus production and cultivated wheat ,barley and artisans were higly efficient as it is is also called the 'bronze age which was only little developed in india.aruyan civilization in later vedic age was related to adding more complexity to the societal architecture and thereby wideniing the inequality and now only saba ,samiti were existing while vidhatah disappeared from the scene