Vajjika League
Vajjika Confederacy Vṛji | |||||||||
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| c. 6th century BCE–c. 468 BCE | |||||||||
The constituent tribes of the Vajjika League, Licchavi, Videha, and Nāya, among the Gaṇasaṅghas | |||||||||
Vajji (the Licchavika dependencies within the Vajjika League), Malla, and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period | |||||||||
| Status | Confederation | ||||||||
| Capital | Vesālī | ||||||||
| Common languages | Prakrit Sanskrit | ||||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Vajjika | ||||||||
| Government | Aristocratic Republic | ||||||||
| Gaṇa Mukhya | |||||||||
| Legislature | Sabhā | ||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
• Established | c. 6th century BCE | ||||||||
• Conquered by Ajātasattu of Magadha in 484–468 BCE | c. 468 BCE | ||||||||
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| Today part of | India Nepal | ||||||||
| History of South Asia |
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The Vajjika (Pāli: Vajjika) or Vrijika (IAST: Vṛjika) League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli: Vajji) or Vriji (IAST: Vṛji), was an ancient Indo-Aryan league which existed during the later Iron Age period in the north-eastern Indian subcontinent.