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Social differences existed in Rigvedic society, but the later rigid four-varna order was not fully developed from the beginning. The Purusha Sukta describes Brahmana, Rajanya/Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra, while these distinctions became more explicit during the Later Vedic period.
Vedic literature extends beyond the four Vedas. The Samhitas contain hymns and mantras, the Brahmanas explain sacrifice and ritual, the Aranyakas explore deeper symbolic meanings of ritual, and the Upanishads increasingly focus on philosophical questions concerning the self, ultimate reality, karma, rebirth and liberation.
The Rigvedic period is reconstructed primarily from the Rigveda. Its world was centred largely in the northwestern subcontinent, with cattle pastoralism playing a major economic role alongside agriculture. Political organization revolved around kin groups, chiefs and assemblies.
