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The Vedic age

The Vedic age for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 2 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions, and every paragraph is explained in Telugu.

Quick recap: Quick recap: The Vedic age on one page

Both parts condensed for quick revision: the Vedas and the Rig Veda, Sapta Sindhu, tribes, assemblies, economy and gods of the Early Vedic period, and the Later Vedic texts, spread east, Painted Grey Ware, kingship, varna, ashramas and Upanishadic ideas, with one table and eight mixed questions.

Parts of this chapter

Part 1

The Early Vedic (Rig Vedic) period

The Vedas as oral texts and how they were preserved; the structure of the Rig Veda and its key hymns; Vedic Sanskrit, the Avesta and the Boghazkoi inscription; Sapta Sindhu and the Rig Vedic rivers; tribes and the Battle of Ten Kings; the rajan, purohita and senani; the sabha, samiti and vidatha; a cattle-based economy with horses and chariots; family, women and the beginnings of varna; and the gods Indra, Agni, Varuna and Soma. Part 2

The Later Vedic period

The Sama, Yajur and Atharva Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads and Vedangas; the move east into the Ganga-Yamuna doab and Videha; Painted Grey Ware and iron; janapadas, kings and the rajasuya, ashvamedha and vajapeya; ratnins and weaker assemblies; plough farming and rice; varna by birth, gotra and the three debts; the ashramas and women; Prajapati, priestly ritual and Upanishadic ideas; and how the Early and Later Vedic periods and the Harappan world compare.

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