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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:
The Buddhist canonical texts - Anguttara Nikaya, Digha Nikaya, Chulla-Niddesa, although with some differences between them, primarily refer to the following 16 mahajanapadas ("great janapadas"): [34] Anga
Indian Subcontinent was divided in 16 states called Mahajanapadas (14 kingdoms and 2 oligarchic republics) (c.600 BC-345 BC) Nanda Kingdom (5th or 4th century–322 BC) (it emerged when the Nanda dynasty dethroned the Shaishunaga dynasty in the Magadha Kingdom, one of the 16 Mahajanapadas, who then sought to conquer and unify today's northern ...
Magadha was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the eastern Ganges Plain.It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed, conquered, and incorporated the other Mahajanapadas.
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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 ...
According to the Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya, Surasena was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (lit. 'great realms') in the 6th century BCE. [1] Also, it is mentioned in the Hindu epic poem Ramayana .
Aśmaka (Skt. अश्मक), or Pali Assaka, was a kingdom among the 16 Mahajanapadas mentioned in Buddhist literature, in inscriptions including the Ajāntā Caves, and in Sanskrit epic and Purānic literature. [1] All other kingdoms were in the north, from Anga to Gandhara.