Question

WRITE THE NAMES OF THE MAIN FOOD ITEMS OF THE PEOPLE DURING RIGVEDA PERIOD​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

Barley and wheat seem to have been the chief produce of the field, and the principal articles of

food. The names of grain found in the Rig-Veda are somewhat misleading, as they have come to bear a different signification in modern days from what they had in the ancient times. Thus the word yava, which in modern Sanskrit implies barley only, was used in the Veda to imply food-grains generally, including wheat and barley. And the word dhana, which, in Bengal at least, now means paddy or rice, implies in the Rig-Veda fried barley, which was used as food and offered to the gods. There is no allusion to rice (vrihi) in the Rig-Veda.

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