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The Janapadas had Kshatriya rulers. [16] Based on literary references, historians have theorized that the Janapadas were administered by the following assemblies in addition to the king: Sabha (Council) An assembly more akin to a council of qualified members or elders (mostly men) who advised the king and performed judicial functions.
The Kamboja Mahajanapada of the Buddhist traditions refers to this cis-Hindukush branch of ancient Kambojas. [ 39 ] The trans-Hindukush region including the Pamirs and Badakhshan which shared borders with the Bahlikas (Bactria) in the west and the Lohas and Rishikas of Sogdiana / Fergana in the north, constituted the Parama-Kamboja country. [ 40 ]
Avanti was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Janapada), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region. According to the Buddhist texts , the Anguttara Nikaya , Avanti was one of the solasa mahajanapadas (sixteen great realms) of the 6th century BCE.
The Kāśī kingdom and the other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic Era. ... – Janapadas (1500–600 BC) – Black and Red ware culture (1300–1000 BC)
Matsya Kingdom and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period. Capital: Virāṭanagara: Common languages: Prakrits: Religion . ... – Janapadas (1500–600 BC)
The later Kuru state in the Mahajanapada period, c. 600 BCE. The Kurus declined after being defeated by the non-Vedic Salva (or Salvi) tribe, and the centre of Vedic culture shifted east, into the Panchala Kingdom, in modern day Uttar Pradesh (whose king Keśin Dālbhya was the nephew of the late Kuru king). [5]
The Mahajanapadas were the sixteen most powerful states in Ancient India. Among the Mahajanapadas and other smaller states around them, some of the states followed a republican form of government. The Gaṇasaṅghas of Ancient India. The word gaṇa (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ n ə /; Sanskrit: गण) in Sanskrit and Pali means group or community. It can ...
By the c. 5th century BCE, it had become an oligarchic confederacy, considered one of the solasa (sixteen) mahajanapadas (major states) of the Indian subcontinent. After being absorbed into the Mauryan Empire (322–185 BCE), Panchala regained its independence until it was annexed by the Gupta Empire in the 4th century CE.