HISTORY
RIG VEDIC PERIOD
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Jana
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Janapadas (pronounced [dʑɐnɐpɐdɐ]) (c. 1500–600 BCE) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period on the Indian subcontinent.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Vedic Age (around 2, 700 years ago), people from different tribes settled in the Gangetic valley. These tribes were known as ‘jana’ in Sanskrit, and the place where they settled was known as a ‘janapada’.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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: -Kashi: Kosala: Anga: Magadha: Vatsa: Avanti: Gandhara: Kamboja: More items