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For the period c. 600 - 300 BCE, Pali canon, Jatakas, Puranas, Grihyasutras, Dharmasutras, Jaina texts can be considered as literary sources of history.
Pali Canon:
- The Pali canon was written over a stretch of time, they all do not belong to same time period.
- The first four books of the Sutta Pitaka (the Digha, Majjhima, Samyutta, and Anguttara Nikayas) and the entire Vinaya Pitaka …

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Various kinds of changes were taking place in society and economy in the Gangetic regions, 500 BCE onwards.
Contemporary texts mention various kinds of units of settlement which emerged in this time. They were referred to as Mahajanpada, Janapada, Nagara, Nigama, Grama etc.
Janapada, literally means “the place where the people place their feet. ”
In the Vedic society it is referred to memb…

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