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What do you mean by the term Janapada ?​

Answer 1

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The Sanskrit term janapada is a tatpurusha compound term, composed of two words: janas and pada. Jana means "people" or "subject" (cf. Latin cognate genus, English cognate kin). The word pada means "foot" (cf. ... Sanskrit padám, usually taken to mean "footprint, trail", diverges in accent from the PIE reconstruction.

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.

Answer 2

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The Sanskrit term janapada is a tatpurusha compound term, composed of two words: janas and pada. Jana means "people" or "subject".  The word pada means "foot".

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