HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Vrijian state
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None of these
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Magadha
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Avanti
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Detailed explanation-1: -2 of the most important republics of the sixth century BC was Vriji and the state of Malla. Both of these states did have the monarchial form of government but in the 6th century, they had been called republics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vaishali Mahajanapada was a Republic.
Detailed explanation-3: -The important Republics of this period were the Sakyas of Kapilavastu and the Licchavis of Vaishali. The important Monarchical Mahajanpadas of this period were Kaushambi (Vatsa), Magadha, Kosala and Avanti.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -There were sixteen of such Mahajanapadas: Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji, Malla, Chedi, Vatsa, Kuru, Panchala, Machcha, Surasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhara and Kamboja.