How are Janapadas different than Mahajanapadas?
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Janapadas literally means the foothold of the tribe. The fact that Janapada is derived from Jana refers to the initial stage of land use by the Jana tribe for a sedentary way of life. The first settlement process on the land has completed its final stage before the Buddhist and Pāṇini times. The pre-Buddhist north and west regions of the Indian subcontinent are divided into several Janapada bounded by one another by borders. While Mahājanapadas literally means "great world", great, "great", and janapada "the foothold of a tribe", "land" is one of sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics existing in ancient India from the 6th century BC until the 4th century BC. Two of them are very likely to be "gana" republics, others monarchic.
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