Tribes in Ancient India c50.75

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c50.75

The *Vinaya Piṭaka* (I, p. 179) tells us that Bimbisāra was the lord of 80,000 villages, and the *Mahāvagga* also states that Bimbisāra’s dominions embraced 80,000 townships, the overseers (*Gāmikas*) of which used to meet in a grand assembly.⁶

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Mahāvagga — Pāli
Vinayapiṭaka — Pāli