Question

define mahajanapadas in short

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Answer 1

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The Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit: great realm, from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a people") were sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in Northern ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE during the second urbanisation period.

Religion: Vedic Hinduism; Śramaṇa (Buddhism and Jainism)

Historical era: Iron Age

Government: Republics (Gaṇa sangha); Monarchies

Answer 2

Monarchical Mahajanapadas were those places where the head of the kingdom, or the king, was hereditary. They were sixteen in number. Magadha, Koshala, Avanti, etc., were some of the important monarchical mahajanapadas.