CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Question
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Artisanship
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Shipping
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Farming
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Cleaning the Roads
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hindu religious texts assigned Vaishyas to traditional roles in agriculture and cattle-rearing, but over time they came to be landowners, traders and money-lenders. Therefore making it their responsibility to provide sustenance for those of higher class, since they were of lower class.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who was known as Vaishyas? Answer: Traders and moneylenders were known as Vaishyas.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the Indian caste system, farmers and merchants belonged to the Varna (or caste) called the Vaishyas.
Detailed explanation-4: -They were based on their original Gotra or business or status. Tater, Bafna, Karnavat, Balaha, Morakh, Kulahat, Virhat, Shrishrimal, Shreshthi, Sancheti, Aditya Nag, Bhuri, Bhadra, Chinchat, Kumat, Didu, Kannojia, Lagushreshti Thus shrishrimals were the residents of Ukesh (Osia) when the Oswal nyat originated.