Question

Name the trading class of later Vedic period.​

Answer 1

The 'Panis' was the name of the trading class of later Vedic period

Explanation:

• Later Vedic Period is identified with the period between 1000 to 600 BC. The period before it, that stretched from 1500 to 1100 BC, is known as the Early Vedic Age or Rigvedic Age.
• The age is characterized by the composition of Vedas. Vedic Hymns, called Samhita, were composed and complied. The age was dominated by the Iron culture; the evidences of which were excavated in Pakistan.
• The mode of agriculture was primitive yet the rice and wheat cultivation was prevalent in this age. The Trade in later Vedic period was dominated by a class of rich merchants called Panis.