HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Detailed explanation-1: -By occupation, they practice trading, agriculture, and other professions. Vaishyas played an important role in the social order during the Vedic period.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the early Vedic-period Varna system was based on Occupation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Chandogya Upanishad indicates that varna is allocated on the basis of one’s birth and previous birth: Among them, those who did good work in this world [in their past life] attain a good birth accordingly. They are born as a brāhmin, a kṣatriya, or a vaiśya.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agriculture was the main occupation but people in Rig vedic period followed different occupations.
Detailed explanation-5: -The varna system had become rigid during the Later Vedic Period.