What were Mahajanapadas? Name any four of them.
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The Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit: महाजनपद, lit. '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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Mahajanpadas were the sixteen kingdoms or oliharchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE
There were sixteen of Mahajanapadas or Great Kingdoms in India : Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji, Malla, Chedi, Vatsa, Kuru, Panchala, Machcha, Surasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhara and Kamboja.
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