Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c15.s1.7

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According to the same source, there is another tradition which connects the name with the Pāli and Sanskrit word *mayūra*, peacock. The city which they founded had buildings of blue stone, like the neck of a peacock (*mayūragīvasaṅkāsa*), and the place always resounded with the shrill cries of peacocks.⁷ The masters (*sāmino*) of the city, continues the commentator, were the Sakyas, but their sons and grandsons from then onward became known in the entire Jambudīpa only by the name of the Moriyas. This is why the following generations speak of their clan as the *Moriyavaṁsa*.⁸