Consider the following statements regarding land classification and tenure systems during the transition from Early to Later Vedic society:
1. In the Rigvedic phase, land was not a private property asset and terms like Khilya denoted common pasture patches between cultivated fields.
2. The Later Vedic text layers witness the crystallization of permanent individual or family land control as sedentary agriculture stabilized.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Both statements are correct. In the Rigveda, wealth was centered on livestock, not acres of land. Terms like Khilya meant waste or common grazing land separating fields. In the Later Vedic period, the clearing of forests using iron tools led to sedentary agricultural stabilization, transforming territory and crop fields into family inheritance assets.

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