Introduction

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

1a) Janapada (जनपद).—Get deserted and desolate in Kali;¹ are left in a state of arājaka.²

• 1) Vāyu-purāṇa 88. 187.
• 2) Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 31. 50, 97; III. 50. 5; IV. 5. 4.

1b) The seven of Krauñcadvīpa viz., Uṣṇa, Pīvara, Andhakāra, Muni, Dundubhi, Kuśala and Manuja.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 33. 23.

2) Jānapada (जानपद).—Country people; treated with love by Pṛthu;¹ were provided with seats in the wrestling enclosure of Kaṃsā.²

• 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa IV. 17. 2; 21. 6; Matsya-purāṇa 220. 15.
• 2) Bhāgavata-purāṇa X. 36. 24.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Raj Nighantu

Janapada (जनपद) is a synonym for Deśa (“region”), according to the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands [viz., Janapada], soil, mountains, jungles and vegetation’s relations between trees and plants and substances, with their various kinds.

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Janapada (जनपद):—Group of peoples leaving in specific location, i. e community

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

A district in Northern Malaya in Ceylon, near the frontier of the Dakkhinadesa. Cv.xliv.56, etc. For identification, see Cv. Trs.i.79, n.4; 262, n.1.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

Janapada (जनपद) refers to a “tribal settlement” and represents a name-ending for place-names mentioned in the Mahābhārata I.2-8, according to which, “a place must be named after any of its peculiar features”. We find Rāṣṭra as the oldest right from the Ṛgveda, and used for the biggest unit. Its equivalent Janapada came into being in the Brāhmaṇa-period.

The ordinary people of a Janapada were called Viś which were divided into grāmas or unions of many families. So whenever the people of grāmas settled they were termed as grāmas (villages) and hence the word Saṃgrāma came into being when a number of grāmas united for a battle. Every Janapada had a pura or chief city (capital) where the king resided. Every Janapada was politically named as Rāṣṭra. Pāṇini mentions a number of Janapadas in the Aṣṭādhyātī. Kauṭilya also uses the term Janapada for territory as the constituent of State. We find the mention of sixteen Mahājanapadas of Āryāvarta in many places in the Buddhist literature.

Source: Early History Of The Deccan Pts.1 To 6: Principal Administrative Divisions from the Rise of the Sātavāhanas

Janapada (जनपद) refers to a “tract of land”.—We have seen that from the days of the Brāhmaṇas the word janapada has been used to denote a particular people or territory in ancient India. The term seems to have had at first an ethnic rather than an administrative significance, being applied to a tract of land occupied by a particular race, tribe, or clan rather than an area marked out for administrative convenience by a government. But the janapada was not a mere habitat of anunorganized people. It formed a political community. Such was the janapadaof the Uttara-Kurus and the janapada of the Uttara-Madras in the Aitareya-brāhmaṇa.

In the Myakadani inscriptionof the Sātavāhana king Pulumāyi, however, a janapada is expressly mentioned as a district under a military governor. The word, however, very rarely occurs as a designation of an administrative area in later ages. It continues to be used in compositions of a geographical character, e.g. the Bhuvanakoṣa of the Purāṇas, or the deśa-vibhāga of the Kāvyamīmāṃsā, in its original sense of an area associated with a particular race, tribe, or clan often claiming a common ancestry.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Janapada or Jānapada.—(IE 8-3; EI 23, 33), people of the countryside; regarded by some as an official designation (EI 26), and by others as a corporate body (EI 21). Note: janapada is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

janapada : (m.) a province; a country; country-side. || jānapada (adj.) belonging to the country; (m.) a rustic. plu. country-folk.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Janapada, (jana+pada, the latter in function of collective noun-abstract: see pada 3) inhabited country, the country (opp. town or market-place), the continent; politically: a province, district, county D. I, 136 (opp. nigama); II, 349; A. I, 160, 178; Sn. 422, 683, 995, 1102; J. I, 258; II, 3 (opp. nagara), 139, 300; PvA. 20, 32, 111 (province). See also gāma. The 16 provinces of Buddhist India are comprised in the soḷasa mahā-janapadā (Miln. 350) enumerated at A. I, 213=IV. 252 sq. =Nd² 247 (on Sn. 1102) as follows: Aṅgā, Magadhā (+Kālingā, Nd²) Kāsī, Kosalā, Vajjī, Mallā, Cetī (Cetiyā A. IV, ), Vaṃsā (Vaṅgā A. I, ), Kurū, Pañcālā, Majjā (Macchā A), Sūrasenā, Assakā, Avantī, Yonā (Gandhārā A), Kambojā. Cp. Rhys Davids, B. India p. 23.

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Jānapada, (adj. -n.) (fr. janapada) belonging to the country, living in the c.; pl. country-folk (opp. negamā townsfolk) D. I, 136, 142; M. II, 74; J. II, 287, 388; DA. I, 297 (=janapada-vāsin). (Page 282)

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Janapada refers to: country see sep.;

Note: janapada is a Pali compound consisting of the words jana and pada.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

janapada (जनपद).—m S Any inhabited country.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

janapada (जनपद).—m Any inhabited country.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Jānapada (जानपद).—[jānena utpattyā padyate pad ap; janapade bhavaḥ, aṇ vā]

1) An inhabitant of the country, a rustic, boor, peasant (opp. paura); ततः कतिपयाहःसु वृद्धो जानपदो युवा (tataḥ katipayāhaḥsu vṛddho jānapado yuvā) Rām.7.73.2.

2) A country.

3) A tax &c. from peasants.

4) subject.

-dā A popular expression.

-dī Profession, business.

Derivable forms: jānapadaḥ (जानपदः).

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Janapada (जनपद).—

1) a community, race, nation; Y.1.361 v. l.

2) A kingdom, an empire, an inhabited country; जनपदे न गदः पदभादधौ (janapade na gadaḥ padabhādadhau) R.9.4; दाक्षि- णात्ये जनपदे (dākṣi- ṇātye janapade) Pt.1; Me.48.

3) the country (opp. the town pura, nagara); जनपदवधूलोचनैः पीयमानः (janapadavadhūlocanaiḥ pīyamānaḥ) Me.16.

4) the people, subjects (opp. the sovereign); जनपदहितकर्ता त्यज्यते पार्थिवेन (janapadahitakartā tyajyate pārthivena) Pt.1.131.

5) mankind.

6) a. considering his subjects as authority; आपौरप्रकृतिजनपदो राजा (āpauraprakṛtijanapado rājā) Bhāg.5.4.5.

Derivable forms: janapadaḥ (जनपदः).

Janapada is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jana and pada (पद).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Jānapada (जानपद).—(= janapada; otherwise, in Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit jāṇavaya, only in meaning inhabitant of the country), country: yaṃ velaṃ dharmalabdho kṣemena vārāṇasyāṃ jānapado (so mss., Senart em. °daṃ, read rather °de, loc.) prāptaḥ Mahāvastu iii.291.8 (prose); nagarehi ca nigamehi ca jānapadehi ca 13 (prose, no v.l.). Perhaps read jana° both times.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janapada (जनपद).—m.

(-daḥ) 1. Any inhabited country. 2. Man, mankind E. jana man, and pada going. janāḥ padyante gacchanti yatra . pada ādhāre gha .

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Jānapada (जानपद).—m.

(-daḥ) 1. Man, mankind. 2. An inhabited country. E. janapada the same, and ap aff. jānena utpattyā padyate pada-ap .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Jānapada (जानपद).—i. e. jana-pada + a, I. m. An inhabitant of a country, a subject, [Yājñavalkya, (ed. Stenzler.)] 2, 36. Ii. adj. 1. Living in the country, [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 50, 4. 2. Referring to districts, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 41.

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Janapada (जनपद).—m. 1. country, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 5, 5. 2. pl. and sing. people, [Yājñavalkya, (ed. Stenzler.)] 1, 360.

Janapada is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jana and pada (पद).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janapada (जनपद).—[masculine] district, country (lit. tribe-place); (also [plural]) people, [especially] country people, subjects ([opposed] prince).

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Jānapada (जानपद).—[adjective] living in the country; [masculine] countryman (in both mgs), subject.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Janapada (जनपद):—[=jana-pada] [from jana > jan] m. sg. or [plural] a community, nation, people (as opposed to the sovereign), [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa ii; Aitareya-brāhmaṇa viii, 14; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa xiii f.] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] sg. an empire, inhabited country, [Mahābhārata] etc. (ifc. f(ā). , [Rāmāyaṇa iii, 61, 27])

3) [v.s. ...] mankind, [Horace H. Wilson]

4) Jānapada (जानपद):—[from jātṛ] mfn. ([gana] utsādi) living in the country (jana-pada)

5) [v.s. ...] m. inhabitant of the country, [Mahābhārata] ([Nalopākhyāna xxvi, 30]), [Rāmāyaṇa; Raghuvaṃśa; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

6) [v.s. ...] belonging to or suited for the inhabitants of the country, [Manu-smṛti viii, 41; Rāmāyaṇa i, 12, 13]

7) [v.s. ...] m. one who belongs to a country, subject, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa xiv; Yājñavalkya ii, 36; Mahābhārata xii; Rāmāyaṇa]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Janapada (जनपद):—[jana-pada] (daḥ) 1. m. Any inhabited country; man; multitude.

2) Jānapada (जानपद):—[jāna-pada] (daḥ) 1. m. Man, people; an inhabited country.

[Sanskrit to German] (Deutsch Wörterbuch)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Janapada (जनपद):—(jana + pada) m. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,5,5.] [Siddhāntakaumudī 249,b,4 v. u.] Volksgemeinde, Völkerschaft, das Volk im Gegens. zum Fürsten (sg. und pl.); Reich, Land [Amarakoṣa 2, 1, 8.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 207.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 947.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 140.] [Medinīkoṣa d. 48.] āsya.taṃ janapa.aṃ pūrvā kī.tirgacchati [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 2, 3, 9, 9.] ye ke ca pareṇa himavantaṃ janapadā uttarakurava uttaramadrā iti [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 8, 14.] yathā mahārājo jānapadāṃgṛhītvā sve janapade yathākāmaṃ parivarteta [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 5, 1, 20. 13, 4, 2, 17.] kula, grāma, janapada [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 94.] [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1, 7.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 22, 2, 22. 11, 34.] samāna [25, 14, 8.] pṛthagja [LĀṬY. 1, 11, 13. 9, 10, 16.] kulāni jātīḥ śreṇīśca gaṇāñjanapadānapi [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 360.] eka, kula, grāma, janapada, pṛthivī [Pañcatantra III, 81.] āvantakā janapadāḥ [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 64.] janaṃ janapadā nityamarcayanti nṛpārcitam [Hitopadeśa II, 76.] janapadabadhū [Meghadūta 16.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 168. 6, 2, 103.] yatrāyaṃ janapadasamavāyaḥ [Mṛcchakaṭikā 174, 2.] nānājanapadākīrṇe sthāne [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 228.] teṣāṃ nivāso janapadaḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 2, 51,] [Scholiast] sārtho yaṃ cedirājasya gantā janapadam [Nalopākhyāna 12, 100.] kośalo nāma muditaḥ sphīto janapado mahān . niviṣṭaḥ sarayūtīre [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 5, 5. 8, 12. 26, 17. 2, 67, 8. 4, 43, 5.] brahmāvartaṃ janapadam [Meghadūta 49.] dākṣiṇātye janapade [Pañcatantra 3, 9. 104, 5. 234, 5.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 6, 11. 14, 20.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 61, 27.] — Vgl. jānapada .

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Jānapada (जानपद):—(von janapada) gaṇa utsādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 86.]

1) m. ein Angehöriger des Reichs, Unterthan [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 16.] = janapada [Medinīkoṣa t. 48.] sa yathā mahārājo jānapadāṃgṛhītvā sve janapade yathākāmaṃ parivarteta [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 5, 1, 20.] deyaṃ caurahṛtaṃ dravyaṃ rājñā jānapadāya tu [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 36.] kṛtaprajñaśca medhāvī budho jānapadaḥ śuciḥ . sarvakarmasu yaḥ śuddhaḥ sa mantraṃ śrotumarhati .. [Mahābhārata 12, 3165.] —

2) adj. subst. auf dem Lande wohnend, ein Bewohner des Landes (im Gegens. zu paura Städtebewohner): paurajānapadāśca janāḥ [Nalopākhyāna 26, 30.] jānapadaṃ janam [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 50, 4. 111, 27.] paurajānapadāḥ [Mahābhārata 1, 2828. 3, 911. 12, 3170.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 39. 6, 1.] [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 9.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 17, 2.] nānānagaravāstavyān pṛthagjānapadānapi [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 1, 30.] —

3) adj. die Landbewohner betreffend, für sie bestimmt: jātijānapadāndharmān [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 41.] tathā jānapadaṃ caiva kartavyaṃ bahu bhojanam [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 12, 13] (vgl. tathā paurajanasyāpi kartavyāḥ -āvāsāḥ [12]). —

4) f. ī a) oxyt. = vṛtti [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 42.] ein volksthümlicher Ausdruck (erg. ākhyā)ḥ bahutrivarṣasya jānapadī trivatsa iti [LĀṬY. 8, 3, 9.] — b) Name einer Localität, deren Name gleichfalls auf ein jānapadī zurückgeht, gaṇa varaṇādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 82.] jālapadī v.l. — c) Nomen proprium einer Apsaras [Mahābhārata 1, 5076.]

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Jānapada (जानपद):—

1) [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 2, 109, 44.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Janapada (जनपद):—m. (adj. Comp. f. ā) Sg. und Pl. Volksgemeinde , Völkerschaft , das Volk (Gegens. Fürst) , Landvolk ; Sg. Reich , Land.

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Jānapada (जानपद):——

1) Adj. — a) auf dem Lande wohnend ; m. Landbewohner (Gegens. Städter ). — b) ein Land — , die Landbewohner betreffend , für sie bestimmt. —

2) m. ein Reichsangehöriger , Unterthan. —

3) f. jānapardī — a) ein volksthümlicher Ausdruck. — b) Nomen proprium — α) einer Apsaras. — β) *einer Oertlichkeit.

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Jānapāda (जानपाद):—[Harivaṃśa 8610] fehlerhaft für jāla.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Jānapada (जानपद):—(a) pertaining, belonging to, or related with, a [janapada].

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Partial matches: Pada, Jana.

Starts with: Janapada Sutta, Janapadacarika, Janapadadharma, Janapadadhipa, Janapadaghataka, Janapadakalyani, Janapadakalyani Nanda, Janapadakalyani Sutta, Janapadakatha, Janapadamahattara, Janapadamandala, Janapadapadesa, Janapadatthavariya, Janapadavyuha, Janapadayuta.

Ends with: Alajanapada, Ambila Janapada, Bhoga-janapada, Dakkhinajanapada, Dakkhinamalayajanapada, Jatijanapada, Mahajanapada, Majjhima Janapada, Mangujanapada, Moriyajanapada, Paccantajanapada, Paurajanapada, Pratyantajanapada, Prithagjanapada, Roliya Janapada, Sajanapada, Samanajanapada, Tirojanapada.

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