Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c13.s3.24

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The Sakyas never regained political importance after the war and that is probably why we do not find them mentioned by Pāṇini or Kauṭilya. Some Sakyan families and individuals may well have survived, but we no longer hear of these children of the mountains who tended to cling to the hills and, like mountaineers the world over, were generally distinguished by a sturdy independence, both in politics and in religion. But a late Buddhist tradition informs us that some of the Sakyas escaped from Kapilavatthu, established a settlement there, and became known in history as the Moriyas of Pipphalivana.¹