Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c11.s1.16

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It is a fair inference that the Nāyas were also defeated along with other Vajjian Confederates and later assimilated in the Magadhan population. We do not hear of them as a political entity after the break-up of the Vajjian Confederation, and the region lying along the north of the Ganges to the foothills of Himālayas must certainly have been finally annexed during the reign of the first Mauryan emperor. No source gives us any further help in writing the political history of the Nāyas. The histories of Jainism and its founder have been written,¹ but in the present state of our knowledge we are unable to give a full-length political history of the clan which gave India one of her greatest sons.