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difference between janapadas and mahajanapadas

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Janapadas

The word janapada literally means the land where the jana set its foot, and settled down. Archaeologists have excavated a number of settlements in these janapadas, such as Purana Qila in Delhi, Hastinapura near Meerut, and Atranjikhera, near Etah (the last two are in Uttar Pradesh). They found that people lived in huts, and kept cattle as well as other animals.

Mahajanapadas

About 2500 years ago, some janapadas became more important than others, and were known as mahajanapadas. Most mahajanapadas had a capital city, many of these were fortified. This means that huge walls of wood, brick or stone were built around them.

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The territory came to be called is janapadas and a number of kingdoms expand and developed into large kingdoms are called mahajanapadas

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The Janapadas (Sanskrit: जनपद pronounced [jənəpəd̪ə]) were the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India which, by the 6th century BC, evolved into the sixteen classical Mahajanapadas. 

Mahajanapadas, literally "great realms", were ancient Indian kingdoms or countries. Ancient Buddhist texts like Anguttara Nikaya [1] make frequent reference to sixteen great kingdoms and republics which had evolved and flourished in a belt stretching from Gandhara in the northwest to Anga in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent and included parts of the trans-Vindhyan region,[2] prior to the rise of Buddhism in India.[3]

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