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Mahajanapadas
Mahājanapadas | |||||||||||||||||
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| c. 600 BCE – c. 345 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
![Map of the 16 Mahājanapadas.[1]](view.php?q=Mahajanapadas&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mahajanapadas_(c._500_BCE).png) Map of the 16 Mahājanapadas.[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Pali, Prakrits, and Sanskrit | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||||||||||
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| History of South Asia |
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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 second urbanisation [2]
- ^ Lal, Deepak (2005). The Hindu Equilibrium: India C.1500 B.C. – 2000 A.D. Oxford University Press. p. xxxviii. ISBN 978-0-19-927579-3.
- ^ Singh, Upinder (2015). A history of ancient and early medieval India: from the Stone Age to the 12th century (7. Impression ed.). Delhi: Pearson. pp. 260–261. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0.
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