Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c8.8

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is too late to be relied upon implicitly.¹ Turnour, in his "Analysis of the Parinibbāna Suttan", refers to them only as "Wajjis" and not as "Samvajjis."² He further says that "the Union of the Wajjian States is stated to have consisted of a confederation of chiefs or princes".³ This should not be taken to support Cunningham's thesis of the "eight clans" forming a confederation.