HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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Anguttat Nikay
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Sanyukta Nikay
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Deegh Nikay
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Khuddak Nikay
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Detailed explanation-1: -The list of the sixteen Mahajanapadas given by the Buddhist Angauttara Nikaya: Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Mgadha, Vajji, Malla, Chedi, Vatsya, Kuru, Panchala, Matsya, Surasena, Asmaka, Avanti, Gandhara, Kamboja.
Detailed explanation-2: -Angutara Nikaya, a Buddhist scripture mentions 16 great kingdoms or Mahajanapadas at the beginning of the 6th century BCE in India. They emerged during the Vedic Age.
Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. The Correct Answer is Anguttara Nikaya. The Anguttr Nikaya, Mahavastu (Buddhist texts), Bhagwati Sutra (Jain texts) texts refer to 16 Mahajanapadas. Gandhara and Kamboj are mentioned in Anguttara Nikaya.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit: great realm, from maha, “great", and janapada “foothold of a people") were sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE during the second urbanisation period.