07-05-2007, 12:18 AM
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Around 3500 BC, Mahabharat days, they were using Chariot, remind you; these chariots with wheels didn't come directly from Witzelâs Aryan land and started fighting and ploughing fields and weaving dresses for people of Vedic Civilization.
Even during Ramyana period, people were wearing clothes, of course weaved.
So you have to think or read or research period before that.
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It is not hard to come to conclusion that since people wore clothes they must have a way of manufacturing them. Similarly, since they had chariots with wheels and made pots (and other more materials), people knew about "wheels". But these in no way show that the instrument we commonly call as "charkha" as it existed during the Independence times, has its origins solely from India. Obviously to weave you need yarn, and certainly there must have been a process to convert the cotton. It is possible that Indians had more than one technology or equipment to do this.
Okay, let me rephrase my question: Can any one point me to the earliest reference to spinning wheel in our ancient literature or other archaeological finds?
Around 3500 BC, Mahabharat days, they were using Chariot, remind you; these chariots with wheels didn't come directly from Witzelâs Aryan land and started fighting and ploughing fields and weaving dresses for people of Vedic Civilization.
Even during Ramyana period, people were wearing clothes, of course weaved.
So you have to think or read or research period before that.
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It is not hard to come to conclusion that since people wore clothes they must have a way of manufacturing them. Similarly, since they had chariots with wheels and made pots (and other more materials), people knew about "wheels". But these in no way show that the instrument we commonly call as "charkha" as it existed during the Independence times, has its origins solely from India. Obviously to weave you need yarn, and certainly there must have been a process to convert the cotton. It is possible that Indians had more than one technology or equipment to do this.
Okay, let me rephrase my question: Can any one point me to the earliest reference to spinning wheel in our ancient literature or other archaeological finds?