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Chulla-Niddesa, another ancient text of the Buddhist canon, adds Kalinga to the list and substitutes Yona for Gandhara, thus listing the Kamboja and the Yona as the only Mahajanapadas from Uttarapatha. [18] [19] The Vyākhyāprajñapti (or the Bhagavati Sutra), a sutra of Jainism, gives a different list of sixteen Mahajanapadas:
Misra notes that the contemporary society was divided into the four varnas (besides the avarna or outcastes), and the Kshatriya ruling class had all the political rights. [21] Not all the citizens in a janapada had political rights. [ 1 ]
Aśmaka or Assaka was a Mahajanapada in ancient India which existed between 700 BCE and 425 or 345 BCE according to the Buddhist texts and Puranas.It included areas in present-day Telangana, Maharashtra and possibly Andhra Pradesh.
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 ...
She was the daughter of Chetaka, the leader of Vaishali. [6] It is recorded that she ruled as a regent for her son for some period of time, although sources differ about the specific circumstances. According to the Jain canonical texts , Udayana was still a minor when Śatānīka died, so "the responsibility of governing the kingdom fell on the ...
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Magadha was a region in ancient India, named after an ancient kingdom of the same name, which was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed and incorporated the other Mahajanapadas.
This period is associated with the emergence of Indian subcontinent's first large cities since the decline of the Indus Valley civilization; this re-urbanization was accompanied by massive embankments and fortifications, significant population growth, increased social stratification, wide-ranging trade networks, specialized craft industries (e ...