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What does the passage mean by the phrase ‘fertile field’?

Directions: Read the following short passage and answer the question. 

Law in India has evolved from religious prescription to the current constitutional and legal system we have today, traversing through secular legal systems and the common law. India has a recorded legal history starting from the Vedic ages and some sort of civil law system may have been in place during the Bronze Age and the Indus Valley civilization. Law as a matter of religious prescriptions and philosophical discourse has an illustrious history in India. Emanating from the Vedas, the Upanishads and other religious texts, it was a fertile field enriched by practitioners from different Hindu philosophical schools and later by Jains and Buddhists. Secular law in India varied widely from region to region and from ruler to ruler. Court systems for civil and criminal matters were essential features of many ruling dynasties of ancient India. The common law system – a system of law based on recorded judicial precedents- came to India with the British East India Company.

  1. That the Vedic law system originated from the Vedas and the Upanishads

  2. That some sort of civil law system may have been in place during the Bronze Age and the Indus Valley civilisation

  3. That it kept evolving through the times with inputs from all philosophies

  4. Cannot be determined from the passage

  5. .
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C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer, as the passage mentions that it is as old as the bronze age and the Indus valley civilisation. The Vedas, the Upanishads and all the religious text from different Hindu philosophical schools, and later by Jains and Buddhists led to its evolving continuously.

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