mnemonics to remember 16 mahajanapadas
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Janapadas & Mahajanapadas
Capital
Location
Anga
Champa
Modern districts of Monger and Bhagalpur in Bihar.
Magadha
Earlier Rajgriha, later Patliputra
Covered the modern districts of Patna, Gaya, and parts of Shahabad.
Malla
Capitals at Kusinara and Pawa
Covered the modern districts of Deoria, Basti, Gorakhpur and Siddarthnagar in eastern UP.
Vajji
Vaishali
Situated north of the river Ganga in Bihar.
Kosala
Sravasti
Covered modern day districts of Faziabad, Gonda, Bahraich of eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Kashi
Varanasi
Located in the region around Varanasi (modern Banaras).
Chedi
Shuktimati
Covered present day Bundelkhand region.
Kuru
Indraprastha
Covered modern Haryana and Delhi.
Vatsa
Kaushambi
Covered modern districts Allahabad, Mirzapur.
Panchala
Ahichhatra(Uttara Panchala) and Kampilya( Dakshina Panchala)
Covered the area of present western UP up to the east of river Yamuna up to Kosala janapada.
Matsya
Viratanagara
Covered the areas of Alwar, Bhartpur and Jaipur in Rajasthan.
Sursena
Mathura
Covered the area around Mathura.
Avanti
Ujjaini and Mahishmati
Covered the western India (modern Malawa).
Ashmaka
Potana
Situated in the southern part of the India between the rivers Narmada and Godavari.
Kamboja
Capital at Rajapura in modern-day Kashmir
Covered the area of Hindukush (modern Hazara districts of Pakistan)
Gandhara
Taxila
Covered the western part of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan