What is Janapad and what is Mahajanapad
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The Janapadas were the major kingdoms of Vedic India. With the development of iron in parts of UP and Bihar, the Janapadas became more powerful and turned into Mahajanapadas. ... There were sixteen such Mahajanapadas during 600 B.C. to 325 B.C. in Indian Sub-continent
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WHAT IS JANAPADAS?
The Janapadas (pronounced [dʑɐnɐpɐdɐ]) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (saamarajya) of the Vedic period on the Indian subcontinent. The Vedic period reaches from the late Bronze Age into the Iron Age: from about 1500 BCE to the 6th century BCE. With the rise of sixteen Mahajanapadas ("great janapadas"), most of the states were annexed by more powerful neighbours, although some remained independent.
WHAT IS MAHAJANAPADAS?
The Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit: great realm, from maha, "great", and 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.
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