[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c10.s2.5 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c10.s2.5 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c10.s2.5 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2.5) The difference between the ancient Vedic land of culture in the west and the east, where there was Aryan land but not yet a long established home of Vaiśvānara, can scarcely be more significantly expressed.⁴ Certainly the boundary between the two tracts here appears to have been already pushed forward a stage farther towards the east. The Kosalas had entered into the community of Vedo-Brāhmaṇic culture earlier than the Videhas.⁵ Quite in accordance with this is the fact that among the names of the stocks not held in full esteem, as though being non-Aryans and at the same time applied as the designation of mixed castes, Vaideha occurs as well as Māgadha.⁶ In Weber's opinion, the Aryan immigrants themselves were not wholly Brāhmaṇized, i.e., not wholly permeated by the culture of the Kuru-Pāñcālas.⁷ The \*Kauśītaka Āraṇyaka\* states that the residence of the Brāhmaṇas in the Magadhan territory was considered something unusual and that such Brāhmaṇas were not respectable.¹ - [Previous: c10.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2.4) - [Next: c10.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2.6) - [Up: c10.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c10.s2.5) · Pramāṇa