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207 relations: Aṅguttara Nikāya, Aṣṭādhyāyī, Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley, Achaemenid Empire, Afghanistan, Ajatashatru, Alwar, Amu Darya, Andhra Pradesh, Anga, Aristocracy, Arthashastra, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Aryan, Ashoka, Asmaka, Atharvaveda, Avanti (region), Awadh, Ayodhya, Śramaṇa, B. N. Mukherjee, Bactria, Badakhshan, Bagram, Bahlikas, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, Bangladesh, Bareilly district, Bṛhat Saṃhitā, Bengal, Bharata (Ramayana), Bharatas (Vedic tribe), Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Bihar, Bimbisara, Bodhan, Braj, Budaun district, Buddhism, Buddhist councils, Buddhist texts, Bundelkhand, Chambal River, Chanakya, Chandragupta Maurya, Chedi Kingdom, Clan, Cyrus the Great, Daily News (Sri Lanka), ... Expand index (157 more) »
- 4th-century BC disestablishments
- 6th-century BC establishments
- Ancient Indian geography
- Bronze Age countries in Asia
- Iron Age countries in Asia
- Iron Age cultures of South Asia
Aṅguttara Nikāya
The Aṅguttara Nikāya (also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.
See Mahajanapadas and Aṅguttara Nikāya
Aṣṭādhyāyī
The (अष्टाध्यायी) is a grammar that describes a form of an early Indo-Aryan language: Sanskrit.
See Mahajanapadas and Aṣṭādhyāyī
Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
Around 535 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great initiated a protracted campaign to absorb parts of India into his nascent Achaemenid Empire.
See Mahajanapadas and Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Mahajanapadas and Achaemenid Empire are Iron Age countries in Asia.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
See Mahajanapadas and Afghanistan
Ajatashatru
Ajatasattu (Pāli) or Ajatashatru (Sanskrit) in Buddhist tradition, or Kunika and Kuniya in the Jain histories, (reigned c. 492 to 460 BCE, or c. 405 to 373 BCE) was one of the most important kings of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha in East India.
See Mahajanapadas and Ajatashatru
Alwar
Alwar (Rajasthani Pronunciation: əlʋəɾ) is a city located in India's National Capital Region and the administrative headquarters of Alwar District in the state of Rajasthan.
Amu Darya
The Amu Darya, also called the Amu, the Amo, and historically the Oxus (Latin: Ōxus; Greek: Ὦξος, Ôxos), is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Anga
Anga was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of eastern India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. Mahajanapadas and Anga are indo-Aryan peoples.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
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Arthashastra
The Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy.
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Arthur Anthony Macdonell
Arthur Anthony Macdonell, FBA (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1930) was a Sanskrit scholar.
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Aryan
Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (an-arya).
Ashoka
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
Asmaka
Asmaka or Assaka was a Mahajanapada in ancient India which existed between 700 BCE and 425 or 345 BCE according to the Buddhist texts Anguttara Nikaya and Puranas.
Atharvaveda
The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
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Avanti (region)
Avanti, was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Janapada), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region.
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Awadh
Awadh, known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a historical region in northern India, now constituting the northeastern portion of Uttar Pradesh.
Ayodhya
Ayodhya is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Śramaṇa
A śramaṇa (श्रमण,; samaṇa; p; sa môn) is a person "who labours, toils, or exerts themselves for some higher or religious purpose" or "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic".
B. N. Mukherjee
Bratindra Nath Mukherjee (1 January 1932 – 4 April 2013) was an Indian historian, numismatist, epigraphist and iconographist, known for his scholarship in central Asian languages such as Sogdian.
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Bactria
Bactria (Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan.
Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.
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Bagram
Bagram (Pashto/بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul.
Bahlikas
The Bahlikas (बाह्लिक; Bāhlika) were the inhabitants of Bahlika (बह्लिक, located in Bactria), mentioned in Atharvaveda, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Vartikka of Katyayana, Brhatsamhita, Amarkosha etc.
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Banda, Uttar Pradesh
Banda is a city and a municipal board in Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Bareilly district
The Bareilly district belongs to the state Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
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Bṛhat Saṃhitā
Bṛhat-saṃhitā is a 6th-century Sanskrit-language encyclopedia compiled by Varāhamihira in present-day Ujjain, India.
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Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bharata (Ramayana)
Bharata (भरत) is the younger brother of Rama in Hindu epic Ramayana, and the regent of Ayodhya during Rama's exile.
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Bharatas (Vedic tribe)
The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. The earliest mentioned location of the Bharatas was on the first Sarasvatī River in southern Afghanistan. Mahajanapadas and Bharatas (Vedic tribe) are indo-Aryan peoples.
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Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, south of India's capital, New Delhi, from Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, west of Agra of Uttar Pradesh and from Mathura of Uttar Pradesh.
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Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
Bimbisara
Bimbisāra (in Buddhist tradition) or Shrenika and Seniya in the Jain histories was the King of Magadha (V. K. Agnihotri (ed.), Indian History. Allied Publishers, New Delhi 262010, f. or) and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty.
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Bodhan
Bodhan town in Nizamabad district of the Indian state Telangana.
Braj
Braj, also known as Vraj, Vraja, Brij or Brijbhumi, is a region in India on both sides of the Yamuna river with its centre at Mathura-Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh state encompassing the area which also includes Palwal, Ballabhgarh and Nuh in Haryana state, Deeg, Bharatpur, Karauli, and Dholpur in Rajasthan state and Morena District in Madhya Pradesh. Mahajanapadas and Braj are indo-Aryan peoples, Iron Age countries in Asia and Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
Budaun district
Badaun district (or Budaun) is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, with its headquarters in the town of Badaun.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Buddhist councils
Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons.
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Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
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Bundelkhand
Bundelkhand is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central & North India.
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Chambal River
The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in Central and Northern India, and thus forms part of the drainage system of the Ganges.
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Chanakya
Chanakya (ISO:,; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and politician.
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Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya (350–295 BCE) was the Emperor of Magadha from 322 BC to 297 BC and founder of the Maurya dynasty which ruled over a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
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Chedi Kingdom
Chedi was a kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken. Mahajanapadas and Chedi Kingdom are indo-Aryan peoples.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus II of Persia (𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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Daily News (Sri Lanka)
The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.
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Daradas
Daradas were an ancient people who lived north and north-west to the Kashmir Valley.
Darius the Great
Darius I (𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁; Δαρεῖος; – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
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Dīgha Nikāya
The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the first of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism.
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Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti (born 27 April 1941 -) is an Indian archaeologist, Professor Emeritus of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University, and a Senior Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.
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Edict
An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchies, but it can be under any official authority.
Entrepôt
An entrepôt or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored, or traded, usually to be exported again.
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F. E. Pargiter
Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852–18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist.
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Farrukhabad district
Farrukhabad district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of India.
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Fazilnagar
Fazilnagar (also known as Pawanagar) is a community development block in the Kushinagar district of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
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Fergana
Fergana (Фарғона), or Ferghana, also Farghana is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan.
Gaṇasaṅgha
Gana-Sangha or Gana-Rajya was a type of clan structure of aristocratic republics in ancient India.
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Gandaki River
The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India.
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Gandhara
Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan.
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Gandhāra (kingdom)
Gandhāra (गन्धार) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of northwestern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
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Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Gaya district
Gaya district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar.
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Godavari River
The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).
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Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region.
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Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads.
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Gwalior district
Gwalior district is one of the 52 districts of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
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Haryana
Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country.
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri (হেম চন্দ্র রায়চৌধুরী) (8 April 1892 – 4 May 1957Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 7th edition, pp.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
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Historical Vedic religion
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
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History of Afghanistan
The history of Afghanistan, preceding the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1823 is shared with that of neighbouring Iran, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
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History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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History of Iran
The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indo-Aryan peoples
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent.
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Indraprastha
Indraprastha (lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra") is mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom.
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Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
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Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
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Iron Age in India
In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age succeeded Bronze Age India and partly corresponds with the megalithic cultures of India.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jambudvīpa
Jambudvīpa (Sanskrit; Jambudīpa) is a name often used to describe the territory of Greater India in ancient Indian sources.
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Janapada
The Janapadas (c. 1500–600 BCE) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent. Mahajanapadas and Janapada are ancient Indian geography and empires and kingdoms of India.
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Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
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K. D. Sethna
Kaikhosru Dhunjibhoy Sethna (26 November 1904 – 29 June 2011) was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic.
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Kali Yuga
Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga.
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Kalinga (historical region)
Kalinga is a historical region of India.
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Kambojas
The Kambojas were a southeastern Iranian people who inhabited the northeastern most part of the territory populated by Iranian tribes, which bordered the Indian lands.
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Kampil
Kampil, historically known as Kampilya, is a town and a Nagar panchayat in Farrukhabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Kampilya
Kampilya was the capital of the Panchala Kingdom, which was a mahajanapada mentioned in the Mahabharata.
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Kannauj
Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: kənːɔːd͡ʒ) is an ancient city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Kasmira Kingdom
Kasmira or Kashmira was a kingdom identified as the Kashmir Valley along the Jhelum River of modern Jammu and Kashmir.
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Kāśī (kingdom)
Kāśī (Kāsī) was an ancient kingdom of India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
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Kingdom of Amber
The Kingdom of Amber, also known as Kingdom of Dhundhar, and Jaipur State, was located in the north-eastern historic Dhundhar region of Rajputana and was ruled by the Kachwaha Rajput clan.
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Kosala
Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India.
Kosambi
Kosambi (Pali) or Kaushambi (Sanskrit) was an ancient city in India, characterized by its importance as a trading center along the Ganges Plain and its status as the capital of the Vatsa Kingdom, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.
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Kuru Kingdom
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans. Mahajanapadas and Kuru Kingdom are indo-Aryan peoples, Iron Age countries in Asia and Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
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Kushinagar
Kushinagar (Pali:; Sanskrit) is a town in the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Lata (region)
Lata (IAST: Lāṭa) was a historical region of India, located in the southern part of the present-day Gujarat state.
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Licchavis of Vaishali
The Licchavis of Vaishali (Māgadhī Prakrit: 𑀮𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀯𑀺; Pāli:; Sanskrit: ऋक्षवी Ṛkṣavī; English: "Bear Clan") were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and dynasty of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested from the Iron Age to the Classical Age.
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List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes
This is a list of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes that are mentioned in the literature of Indian religions. Mahajanapadas and list of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes are indo-Aryan peoples.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.
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Madhyadesha
Madhyadesha or the "middle country" was one of the five sub-divisions of ancient India that extended from the upper reaches of the Ganga and the Yamuna to the confluence of the two rivers at Prayaga. Mahajanapadas and Madhyadesha are ancient Indian geography.
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Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India. Mahajanapadas and Magadha are Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
Magadha-Vajji war
The Magadha-Vajji War was a conflict between the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha and the neighbouring Vajjika League which was led by the Licchavikas.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Mahapadma Nanda
Mahapadma Nanda (IAST: Mahāpadmānanda; r. c. 345–329 BCE), (died 329 BCE) according to the Puranas, was the first Emperor of the Nanda Empire of ancient India.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Mahavira
Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान), the 24th Tirthankara (Supreme Teacher) of Jainism.
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Maheshwar
Maheshwar is a town, near Khargone city in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh state, in central India.
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Malla (tribe)
Malla (Prakrit: 𑀫𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀈; Malla; मल्ल) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
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Malwa
Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.
Manusmriti
The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.
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Mathura
Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Matsya (tribe)
Matsya (Pali) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of central South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. Mahajanapadas and Matsya (tribe) are 4th-century BC disestablishments.
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Matsya Purana
The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism.
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Meerut district
Meerut district, is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India and a Part of Delhi/NCR with the city of Meerut as the district headquarters.
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Megasthenes
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.
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Michael Witzel
Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist.
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Mithila (region)
Mithila, also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges in the south, the Gandaki River in the west and by the foothills of the Himalayas in the north.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
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Names for India
The Republic of India has two principal official short names, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat.
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Nanda Empire
The Nanda dynasty was the Third ruling dynasty of Magadha in the northern Indian subcontinent during the fourth century BCE and possibly also during the fifth.
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Nandipada
The Nandipada ("foot of Nandi") is an ancient Indian symbol, also called a taurine symbol, representing a bull's hoof or the mark left by the foot of a bull in the ground.
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Narmada River
The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Niddesa
The Niddesa (abbrev., "Nidd") is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
Northern Black Polished Ware
The Northern Black Polished Ware culture (abbreviated NBPW or NBP) is an urban Iron Age Indian culture of the Indian subcontinent, lasting –200 BCE (proto NBPW between 1200 and 700 BCE), succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture and Black and red ware culture. Mahajanapadas and Northern Black Polished Ware are Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
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Nuristan Province
Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto:; Kamkata-vari: Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.
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Pañcāla
Panchala was an ancient kingdom of northern India, located in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab of the Upper Gangetic plain which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj. Mahajanapadas and Pañcāla are indo-Aryan peoples and Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
Paithan
Paithan 'pəɪ.ʈʰaɳ, historically Pratiṣṭhāna pɾə'tɪʂʈʰana, is a town with municipal council in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, Maharashtra, India.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
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Pandava
The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who are central figures of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Parama Kamboja Kingdom
Parama Kamboja Kingdom was mentioned in the epic Mahabharata to be on the far north west along with the Bahlika, Uttara Madra and Uttara Kuru countries.
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Paropamisadae
Paropamisadae or Parapamisadae (Παροπαμισάδαι or Παροπανισάδαι) was a satrapy of the Alexandrian Empire in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan, which largely coincided with the Achaemenid province of Parupraesanna.
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Pasenadi
Pasenadi (Pasenadi; Prasenajit; c. 6th century BCE) was an Aikṣvāka ruler of Kosala.
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Pataliputra
Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.
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Patna district
Patna district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India.
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Pāṇini
(पाणिनि.) was a logician, Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India, variously dated between the 7th and 4th century BCE.
Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.
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Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Prayagraj
Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
Puru (Vedic tribe)
The Purus were a Rigvedic tribe or a confederation of tribes that existed between c. 1700–1400 BCE. Mahajanapadas and Puru (Vedic tribe) are indo-Aryan peoples.
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Pushkalavati
Pushkalavati, was the capital of the ancient region of Gāndhāra, situated in present day's Pakistan.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
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Rajgir
Rajgir, old name Rajagriha, meaning "The City of Kings," is an ancient city in the district of Nalanda in Bihar, India.
Rajouri
Rajouri or Rajauri is a city in the Rajouri district in the Jammu division of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Rajputana
Rājputana, meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.
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Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.
Ramnagar, Bareilly
Ramnagar is a town situated in the Ramnagar Mandal of Bareilly District in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Rarh region
Rarh region is a toponym for an area in the Indian subcontinent that lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the West and the Ganges Delta on the East.
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Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi (Punjabi) is the third-largest city in the Pakistani province of Punjab.
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Realm
A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules.
Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
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Rewa, Madhya Pradesh
Rewa is a city in the north-eastern part of Madhya Pradesh state in India.
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Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
Rishikas
The Rishikas (also Rshika and Ṛṣika) was an ancient Kingdom of Central Asia and South Asia, who are mentioned in Hindu and Sanskrit literary texts, including the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the Brhat-Samhita, the Markendeya Purana and Patanjali's Mahabhashya.
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Sangha
Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Satrap
A satrap was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
Sāketa
Sākēta is a Sanskrit appellation of the Indian city of Ayodhya.
Shaishunaga dynasty
The Shishunaga dynasty (IAST: Śaiśunāga, literally "of Shishunaga") was the second ruling dynasty of Magadha, an empire in ancient India.
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Shishunaga
Shishunaga (IAST: Śiśunāga, or Shusunaga) (– 395 BCE) was the founder of the Shishunaga dynasty of the Magadha Empire in the present day northern India.
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Shravasti
Shravasti (श्रावस्ती); translit) is a town in Shravasti district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the capital of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala and the place where the Buddha lived most after his enlightenment. It is near the Rapti river in the northeastern part of Uttar Pradesh India, close to the Nepalese border.
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Shurasena
Shurasena (शूरसेन) is a Yadava ruler of Mathura featured in Hindu mythology.
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Sogdia
Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Suktimati
Shuktimati is the capital city of the Chedi kingdom featured in Hindu literature.
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Surasena
The kingdom of Surasena was an ancient Indian region corresponding to the present-day Braj region in Uttar Pradesh, with Mathura as its capital city. Mahajanapadas and Surasena are indo-Aryan peoples, Iron Age countries in Asia and Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
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Suvarnabhumi
(सुवर्णभूमि; Pali) is a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts such as the Mahavamsa, some of the Jataka tales, the Milinda Panha and the Ramayana. Mahajanapadas and Suvarnabhumi are ancient Indian geography.
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Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.
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Taxila
Taxila or Takshashila (Takṣaśilā; Takkasilā) is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan.
Telangana
Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.
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Thanesar
Thanesar (also known as Sthanishvara) is a historic city and Hindu pilgrimage centre in the Kurukshetra district of Haryana, India.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
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The History and Culture of the Indian People
The History and Culture of the Indian People is a series of eleven volumes on the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947.
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Ujjain
Ujjain (Hindustani pronunciation: ʊd͡ːʒɛːn, old name Avantika) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
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Uttarapatha
Ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts use Uttarapatha as the name of the Northern part of Jambudvipa (equivalent of present-day North India), one of the "continents" in Hindu history. Mahajanapadas and Uttarapatha are ancient Indian geography.
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Vaishali (ancient city)
Vaishali, Vesali or Vaiśālī was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site.
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Vajjika League
The Vajjika (Pāli) or Vrijika League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli) or Vriji, was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribal league which existed during the later Iron Age period in north-east South Asia.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
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Vasudeva
Vasudeva (Sanskrit: वसुदेव, IAST: Vasudeva), also called Anakadundubhi (anakas and dundubhis both refer to drums, after the musicians who played these instruments at the time of his birth), is the father of the Hindu deities Krishna (Vāsudeva, i.e. "son of Vasudeva"), Balarama, and Subhadra.
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Vatsa
Vatsa or Vamsa (Pali and Ardhamagadhi:, literally "calf") was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.
Vedic period
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE. Mahajanapadas and Vedic period are Iron Age cultures of South Asia.
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Viḍūḍabha
Viḍūḍabha (विडूडभ; विरूढक) was a king of Kosala during the lifetime of the Buddha.
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Vindhya Range
The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.
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Viratnagar
Viratnagar previously known as Bairat (IAST) or Bairath (IAST) is a town in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan, India.
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Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam (formerly known as Vizagapatam), also known as Vizag, Viśākha or Waltair, is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Vyākhyāprajñapti
Vyākhyāprajñapti (व्याख्याप्रज्ञप्ति "Exposition of Explanations"), commonly known as the Bhagavati Sūtra (भगवतीसूत्र), is the fifth of the 12 Jain Agamas said to be promulgated by Mahāvīra.
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Xuanzang
Xuanzang ((Hsüen Tsang); 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (/), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator.
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Yamuna
The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India.
Yona
The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue Yavana in Sanskrit and Yavanar in Tamil, were words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers.
Yudhishthira
Yudhishthira (Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, IAST: Yudhiṣṭhira) also known as Dharmaraja, was the king of Indraprastha and later the King of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata.
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See also
4th-century BC disestablishments
- Ba (state)
- Cancho Roano
- Golasecca culture
- Latin League
- Mahajanapadas
- Matsya (tribe)
- Mumun pottery period
- Olmecs
- Sauromatian culture
6th-century BC establishments
- Apollonia (Illyria)
- Benghazi
- Castell de la Fosca
- Cavtat
- Cyropolis
- Ecclesia (ancient Greece)
- Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
- Glades culture
- Iran
- Kolathunadu
- Mahajanapadas
- Meroë
- Middle Indo-Aryan languages
- Monte Albán
- Nāya
- Orontid dynasty
- Pazyryk culture
- Sauromatian culture
- Second Temple
- Trittys
Ancient Indian geography
- Aparanta
- Ariaca
- Dakshinapatha
- Dasarna Kingdom
- Janapada
- Madhyadesha
- Mahajanapadas
- Suvarnabhumi
- Tamilakam
- Uttarapatha
- Āryāvarta
Bronze Age countries in Asia
- Akkadian Empire
- Andarig
- Aram (region)
- Assyria
- Babylonia
- Dilmun
- Ebla
- Elam
- First Babylonian Empire
- Gojoseon
- Hồng Bàng dynasty
- Indus Valley civilisation
- Mahajanapadas
- Middle Assyrian Empire
- Old Assyrian Empire
- Old Assyrian period
- Phoenicia
- Sumer
Iron Age countries in Asia
- Achaemenid Empire
- Aram (region)
- Assyria
- Braj
- Chaldea
- Elam
- Ellipi
- Hồng Bàng dynasty
- Khasas
- Kingdom of Judah
- Kuru Kingdom
- Lydia
- Mahajanapadas
- Maurya Empire
- Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Samaskuta Kingdom
- Surasena
- Urartu
- Wiman Joseon
Iron Age cultures of South Asia
- Braj
- Khasas
- Kuru Kingdom
- Magadha
- Mahajanapadas
- Maurya Empire
- Middle kingdoms of India
- Northern Black Polished Ware
- Pañcāla
- Painted Grey Ware culture
- Rang Mahal, Sri Ganganagar
- Surasena
- Vedic period
References
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