Describe the changes that occurred in the economy and society of the Gupta period.

Though agriculture was the mainstay of economy, there were other occupations as well such as commerce and production of crafts. Different social groups were engaged in these occupations. It is important to realise that certain changes had started taking place in the pattern of economic production and consequently in relations between different social groups. The revenue generated from agriculture was the main source of income for state. For collecting this revenue, a large section of officials was appointed. Contemporary sources (such as Amarakosha) give information about the diverse type of crops produced in this period such as paddy, cotton, oil-seeds, indigo, mustard seeds etc.The people of this period had good knowledge of agriculture and they were aware about the different types of soils. In this regard Amarakosha give us information about twelve types of soils — urvara (fertile), ushara (dry), maru (desiccated), aprahata (untilled), sadbala (grassy land), pankila (covered with mud), jalaprayamanupam (land located near a source of water), kachcha (marshy), sarkara, sarkati, nadimatrika (well-watered by rivers) and devematrika (area well fed by rain). The cultivated land was called as kshetra and uncultivated land was called by various names such as khila or aprahata Land grants not merely give us information about different types of lands given to different donees but also provide information about land measurement. The Gupta land grant records from Bengal inform us about a unit known as vapa which was used for measuring land in the region (adhavapa, dronvapa, kulyavapa). It is derived from root vap (to sow).The exact size of this unit is not clearly mentioned. Same grants mention a rod (nala), that might have been used for ____ ______ __________ _________ _____ ___ __________ ______ _________.
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