Question

difference between janas and janapada​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The Janapadas were the major kingdoms of Vedic India

Aryans were the most influential tribes and were called as 'janas'

This gave rise to the term Janapada where Jana means 'people' and Pada means 'foot'

Answer 2

Answer :

Difference between Jana & Janapada

Explanation:

• The political structure of the ancient Indians appears to have started with semi-nomadic tribal units called Jana (meaning “people” or by extension “ethnic group” or “tribe”). Early Vedic texts attest several Janas or tribes of the Indo-Aryans, living in a semi-nomadic tribal state and fighting among themselves and with other Non-Aryan tribes for cows, sheep and green pastures.

• The tribal political organisation (Jana) of the Rig Vedic phase gave way to the rise of territorial state (Janapada) towards the end of the Vedic period i.e. early Vedic Janas later coalesced into the Janapadas. The term “Janapada” literally means the foothold of a tribe. The fact that Janapada is derived from Jana points to an early stage of land-taking by the Jana tribe for a settled way of life.

• Permanent settlement in a particular area gave a geographical identity to a tribe or a group of tribes and subsequently this identity was given concrete shape in the possession of the area, which was generally named after the tribe. This process of first settlement on land had completed its final stage prior to the times of the Buddha and Paṇini. The Pre-Buddhist north-west region of the Indian sub-continent was divided into several Janapadas demarcated from each other by boundaries. In Paṇini’s writing, Janapada stands for country and Janapadin for its citizenry. Each of these Janapadas was named after the tribe (or the Jana) who had settled therein.

• To maintain this possession required political organization, either as a republic or a monarchy.

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