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Q. What was the number of prominent mahajanapadas in ancient India?
Answer: 16
Notes: Mahajanapadas consisted of sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BC. Ancient Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya make frequent reference to sixteen great kingdoms and republics which flourished from Gandhara in the northwest to Anga in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.

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