Mahājanapadas | |||||||||||||||||
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c. 600 BCE–c. 345 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
Capital | Various | ||||||||||||||||
Common languages | Pali, Prakrits, and Sanskrit | ||||||||||||||||
Religion | Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||||||||||
Government | Republics (Gaṇasaṅghas) Monarchies | ||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||||||||||
• Established | c. 600 BCE | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 345 BCE | ||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Afghanistan |
History of India |
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The Mahājanapadas[a] were sixteen kingdoms and aristocratic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation period.[2]
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