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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]
With the rise of sixteen Mahajanapadas ("great janapadas"), most of the states were annexed by more powerful neighbours, although some remained independent. [ 1 ] Late Vedic era map showing the boundaries of Āryāvarta with Janapadas in northern India.
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. The ancient Greek writers (e.g., Megasthenes) refer to the Sourasenoi and its cities, Methora and Cleisobra/Kleisobora . [2] [3]
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.
It developed beginning around 700 BCE, in the late Vedic period, and peaked from c. 500 –300 BCE, coinciding with the emergence of 16 great states or Mahajanapadas in Northern India, and the subsequent rise of the Mauryan Empire.