GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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A series of texts
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They were the tribes of India
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A group of hills
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An extinct species used to travel from place to place
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aryans were the most influential tribes and were called as ‘janas’. This gave rise to the term Janapada where Jana means ‘people’ and Pada means ‘foot’.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “janapada” means “the land where the jana or the people set feet and settled down". Some of the important janapadas were Avanti, Kosala, Vatsa and Magadha.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vedic people used the term Jana to designate a group of people, united under a common bond of singular kinship structure. Their settlement was known as ‘Grama’. A cluster of gramas consisting of the same Jana was known by the name of that particular Jana. A region occupied by a Janas was called as Janapada.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans. There were sixteen of such Mahajanapadas: Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji, Malla, Chedi, Vatsa, Kuru, Panchala, Machcha, Surasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhara and Kamboja.
Detailed explanation-5: -Janapadas refer to the early villages that came up around the fertile area of the gangetic plains. Here people of the same tribe came together to practice agriculture and soon villages came up. These villages were known as Janapadas. They were governed by the village headman.