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1.1 The 16 great houses of ancient India

The History of India Podcast

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The History of the Mahajana Pada

Mahajana Pada's are much bigger or some of them are. They contain several different large cities, some of them. And for another thing they can contain several different from little countries themselves. But anyway we'll get to all this. If you've been paying very close attention you'll have noticed that I said there were 16 great houses and then I gave you 17 names. Well spotted. So these are the names to remember. Magadha, Virijii and Qasala. This is where our city, Batali Putrubi, but at the moment it's just a village. The difference seems to be that the first of those is the Sanskrit version and the second

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