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What is the meaning of Mahajanapadas.

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Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: महाजनपद, Mahājanapadas), literally "great realms", (from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a tribe", "country") were ancient Indian kingdoms or countries. Ancient Buddhist texts like Anguttara Nikaya [1] make frequent reference to sixteen great kingdoms and republics (Solas Mahajanapadas) which had evolved and flourished in a belt stretching from Gandhara in the northwest to Anga in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent and included parts of the trans-Vindhyan region, prior to the rise of Buddhism in India

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MAHAJANAPADAS WERE THE MORE POWERFUL KINGS THAN THE JANAPADAS.

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mahajanapadas were generally made up of janapadas which were just made a big kingdom like structure and had powerful kings like ajashastru
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They were large kingdoms 
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SOME OF THE JANAPADAS BECAME IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHERS THESE WERE KNOWN AS MAHAJANAPADAS .THEY WERE FORTIFIED.TAXES WERE COLLECTED.REGULAR ARMY WAS MAINTAINED ETC.FOR EXAMPLE-,VAJJI,KURU,ETC.
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more powerful
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SOME OF THE JANAPADAS BECAME IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHERS THESE WERE KNOWN AS MAHAJANAPADAS .THEY WERE FORTIFIED.TAXES WERE COLLECTED.REGULAR ARMY WAS MAINTAINED ETC.FOR EXAMPLE-,VAJJI,KURU,ETC.
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about 2500 years ago some of the Janpath has become more important than the other than others that are known as mahajanpada
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Majanpadas were the people who became important from the rest of the of the janpadas ( people ) most of the mahajanpadas were rulers or priest
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About 2,500 years ago, Some Janapadas become more important than others, and were know as Mahajanapadas
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about 2500 years ago some janapadas become more important than other and when known as mahajanapadas
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