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Plough

A named soil-turning draft implement of later agricultural practice. Not a sickle, not a shaduf, and not a chariot.

Also known as Plow · Moldboard plough

Vedic tradition

Plough appears in Vedic tradition.
The Rigveda names the plough among the tillage gear of Vedic song. A named South Asian draft implement in that hymn corpus, not a sickle and not a chariot.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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sources

The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.