Economic
Development during Vishnukund period:
Villages – self sufficient.
Kings took steps for the development of
agriculture.
Brahmins were donated farmers, some servants and
maid servants. Thus the agrahara lands were brought under cultivation.
Dug many wells and canals.
Nivarthana – land measuring unit. (like acres /
hectares)
Domestic and foreign trade.
Coins found at – Yeleshwaram, Bhuvanagiri,
Sultanabad (in Kareemnagar) in Telagnana.
Bojjanna konda, Elamanchili (in Vishakhapatnam),
Andhra Pradesh.
Nasik, Kanhapur, and Nagpur in Maharashtra.
Brahmagiri in Madhyapradesh.
Trade
Internal
trade was carried on in the places where the coins were found.
Internal trade ports – Bejawada, Amaravathi, Motupalli,
Ghantasala, Koduru, Alampuram-Kudalisangham and others on the banks of river
Krishna. From these ports – Now and then
foreign trade.
External
trade has grown after the occupation of Vengi from the Salankayanas and the
kingdom of Kalinga. Ship mark on the coins. Madhava Varma II’s title –
Trisamdradhipati. All these indicate importance of foreign trade.
From eastern coast foreign trade with Burma, Siam,
Cambodia, China, Japan, Ceylone, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Malaya, Arkan and
western countries, such as Egypt, Rome, Greece etc.
Motupalli, and Kodur – Eastern ports.
At Kudalisanghameshwaram near Alampur, a gold coins
of Roman Emperor Constantine (306 A.D. – 337 A.D.) was found. This coin was
found along with some other coins.
Krishna –Thungabhadra doab region was centre for
foreign trade and commerce even before the Vishnukunds and this continued even
during the Vishnukund period.
According to Fa-Hien, during the beginning decades
of the 5th century A.D., shells were also used as currency in the
Vishnukund kingdom.
According to Huantsang full size golden statues of
Buddha were there at Sriparvatha. These statues were not found.
But archaeologists found copper statues of Buddha
at Buddham and Amaravathi. Size – 1 inch to 5 inches.
A nuff box made of cast iron and in the shape of
mango bud found at Keesaragutta. Size – 7 centimeters
Economy of those times was strong.
All sections of people lived happily.
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