[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) › c11.33 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c11.33 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c11.33 - **Language:** English ### [c11.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11.33) In addition to Kuṇḍagāma, the city of Vesāli is mentioned as the birthplace of Mahāvīra; hence he is sometimes called \*Vesālie\*.⁷ In Jacobi's opinion “Vaiśālika apparently means a native of Vaiśālī, which would be appropriate to Mahāvīra when Kuṇḍagrāma was a suburb of Vaiśālī, just as a native of Turnham Green may be called a Londoner.”⁸ A Buddhist tradition, quoted by Rockhill, says that “there were three districts in Vaiśālī”.⁹ Hoernle thinks that “there may very well have been Vesāli proper, Kuṇḍapura and Vāṇiyagāma, occupying the South-Eastern, North-Eastern, and Western portions of the area of the total city respectively”.¹ Beyond Kuṇḍapura, the text informs us, and further in a north-easterly direction lay the suburb (\*sannivesa\*) of Kollāga, which appears to have been also chiefly inhabited by Khattiyas of Mahāvīra’s Nāya clan.² Also a part of their settlement at Kollāga, but lying outside it, was the Nāya-owned³ \*Caitya\* (\*Ceïya\*) of Dūīpalāsa.⁴ - [Previous: c11.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11.32) - [Next: c11.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11.34) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11) ## Cites (2) - [Sūyagaḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.sveta.anga.2) — Sudharman, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit - [Cīvaravastu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.mulasarvastivada.vinayavastu.civara) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c11.33) · Pramāṇa