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Kosambi, the Glossary

Kosambi (Pali) or Kaushambi (Sanskrit) was an ancient city in India, characterized by its importance as a trading center along the Ganges Plain and its status as the capital of the Vatsa Kingdom, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas.^[1]

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Indo-Aryan archaeological sites
Tourism in Uttar Pradesh
Vatsa

Allahabad Museum

The Allahabad Museum is a national-level museum in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

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Allahabad Pillar

The Allahabad pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE.

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Arch

An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it.

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Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Archaeological Survey of India

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country.

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Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, margosa, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae.

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Ānanda

Ānanda (Pali and Sanskrit: आनन्द; 5th4th century BCE) was the primary attendant of the Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Buddhist councils

Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons.

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Daily News (Sri Lanka)

The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

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Damaru

A damaru (डमरु,; Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ་ or རྔ་ཆུང) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.

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Entrepôt

An entrepôt or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored, or traded, usually to be exported again.

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G. R. Sharma

Govardhan Rai Sharma (1919-1986) was a Historian from Allahabad University who led the Kausambi excavations which added to original historical research in the country.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.

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Kannauj

Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: kənːɔːd͡ʒ) is an ancient city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kosambi and Kannauj are ancient Indian cities and former capital cities in India.

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Kapilavastu (ancient city)

Kapilavastu was an ancient city in the eastern Nepal which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or "republic" of the Shakyas in the late Iron Age, around the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Kosambi and Kapilavastu (ancient city) are ancient Indian cities.

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Katyayana (Buddhist)

Kātyāyana or Mahākātyāyana (Sanskrit; Pali: Kaccāyana, sometimes shortened to Kaccāna; also Mahākaccāna, or Mahākaccāyana) was a disciple of Gautama Buddha.

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Kaushambi district

Kaushambi district is a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

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Kosala

Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India.

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Kukkutarama

Kukkutarama was a Buddhist monastery in Pataliputra in eastern India, which is famous as the location of various "Discourses at the Kukkutarama Monastery", and for the eponymous "Kukkutarama sutra".

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Kushinagar

Kushinagar (Pali:; Sanskrit) is a town in the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Kosambi and Kushinagar are ancient Indian cities and Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.

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Magadha

Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.

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Mahajanapadas

The Mahājanapadas were sixteen kingdoms and aristocratic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation period.

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Maurya Empire

The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).

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Mitra dynasty

The Mitra dynasty were several, possibly related, dynasties ruling in different regions of India.

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Mitra dynasty (Kosambi)

Mitra dynasty of Kosambi was centered on the city of Kosambi at the Vatsa region.

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Mortimer Wheeler

Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.

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Nāga

In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art.

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Northern Black Polished Ware

The Northern Black Polished Ware culture (abbreviated NBPW or NBP) is an urban Iron Age Indian culture of the Indian subcontinent, lasting –200 BCE (proto NBPW between 1200 and 700 BCE), succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture and Black and red ware culture.

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Ochre Coloured Pottery culture

The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh.

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Pali

Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.

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Parinirvana

In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit:; Pali) describes the state entered after death by someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime.

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Pataliputra

Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river. Kosambi and Pataliputra are ancient Indian cities, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, former capital cities in India, former populated places in India and indo-Aryan archaeological sites.

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Pāvā

Pāvā was an important city of the Malla tribe of ancient India at the time of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha. Kosambi and Pāvā are ancient Indian cities, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India and former populated places in India.

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Pillars of Ashoka

The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic pillars dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great, who reigned from to 232 BC.

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Pindola Bharadvaja

Pindola Bharadvaja (Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja) is an Arhat in Buddhism.

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Prayagraj

Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kosambi and Prayagraj are ancient Indian cities, former capital cities in India and Tourism in Uttar Pradesh.

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Prayagraj district

Prayagraj district, also known as Allahabad district, is the most populous district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Pushyamitra Shunga

Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST) or Pushpamitra Shunga (IAST) (ruled) was the founder and the first ruler of the Shunga Empire which he established to succeed the Maurya Empire.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Saṃyutta Nikāya

The Saṃyutta Nikāya ("Connected Discourses" or "Kindred Sayings") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the third of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sāketa

Sākēta is a Sanskrit appellation of the Indian city of Ayodhya.

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Shravasti

Shravasti (श्रावस्ती); translit) is a town in Shravasti district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the capital of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala and the place where the Buddha lived most after his enlightenment. It is near the Rapti river in the northeastern part of Uttar Pradesh India, close to the Nepalese border. Kosambi and Shravasti are ancient Indian cities, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, former populated places in India and indo-Aryan archaeological sites.

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Tai Tham script

Tai Tham script (Tham meaning "scripture") is an abugida writing system used mainly for a group of Southwestern Tai languages i.e., Northern Thai, Tai Lü, Khün and Lao; as well as the liturgical languages of Buddhism i.e., Pali and Sanskrit.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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The Wonder That Was India

The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims, is a book on Indian history written by Arthur Llewellyn Basham and first published in 1954.

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Udayana (king)

Udayana was a king of Vatsa in India, a contemporary of Gautama Buddha.

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Ujjain

Ujjain (Hindustani pronunciation: ʊd͡ːʒɛːn, old name Avantika) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Kosambi and Ujjain are ancient Indian cities and former capital cities in India.

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University of Allahabad

The University of Allahabad is a Public Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Vaishali (ancient city)

Vaishali, Vesali or Vaiśālī was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site. Kosambi and Vaishali (ancient city) are ancient Indian cities, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, former capital cities in India, former populated places in India and indo-Aryan archaeological sites.

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Vajjika League

The Vajjika (Pāli) or Vrijika League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli) or Vriji, was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribal league which existed during the later Iron Age period in north-east South Asia.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. Kosambi and Varanasi are ancient Indian cities, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India and former capital cities in India.

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Vassa

Vassa (script, script, both "rain") is the three-month annual retreat observed by Theravada Buddhists.

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Vatsa

Vatsa or Vamsa (Pali and Ardhamagadhi:, literally "calf") was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.

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Vedic period

The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosambi

Also known as Kausambi, Kaushambi, India, Kosambi, India.

, Ujjain, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Vaishali (ancient city), Vajjika League, Varanasi, Vassa, Vatsa, Vedic period, Vidisha, Vinaya, Yamuna.

Kosambi, the Glossary

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See also

Indo-Aryan archaeological sites

Tourism in Uttar Pradesh

Vatsa

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