Vajji

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{{Infobox country
|native_name =
|conventional_long_name = Vajji
|common_name = Vajji
|era = [[Bronze Age]], [[Iron Age]]
|government_type = [[Republic]]<ref name="Olivelle2006">{{cite book|author=Patrick Olivelle|title=Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BC to 400 AD|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efaOR_-YsIcC&pg=PA15|date=13 July 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-977507-1|pages=15–}}</ref>
|year_start = c. 700 BC
|year_end = c. 400 BC
|event_end = Conquered by [[Ajatashatru]] of Magadha
|s1 = Haryanka dynasty
|image_map = Mahajanapadas_(c._500_BCE).png
| image_map_alt =
|image_map_caption = Vajji and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period.
|leader1 =
|capital = [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]]<ref name="Olivelle2006"/>
|common_languages = [[Maithili language|Maithili]], [[Prakrit]], [[Sanskrit]]
|religion = [[Jainism]]<br>[[Hinduism]]<br>[[Buddhism]]
|currency =
|title_leader= [[Maharaja]]
|today = {{flag|India}}<br>{{flag|Nepal}}
}}
{{HistoryOfSouthAsia}}

'''Vajji''' ({{lang-sa|वृज्जी}} {{lang-hi|वज्जि}} ) or 𝗩𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗶 was a confederacy of neighbouring clans including the [[Licchavi (clan)|Licchavi]]s and one of the principal [[Mahajanapada|mahājanapada]]s of [[Ancient India]]. The area they ruled constitutes the region of [[Mithila (ancient)|Mithila]] in northern [[Bihar]] and their capital was the city of [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]].<ref name="Olivelle2006"/>

Both the Buddhist text ''[[Aṅguttara Nikāya]]'' and the Jaina text ''[[Vyākhyāprajñapti|Bhagavati Sūtra]]'' (''Saya'' xv ''Uddesa'' I) included Vajji in their lists of ''solasa'' (sixteen) mahājanapadas.<ref>Raychaudhuri Hemchandra (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, pp.85-6</ref> The name of this mahājanapada was derived from one of its ruling clans, the Vṛjis. The Vajji state is indicated to have been a [[republic]]. This clan is mentioned by [[Pāṇini]], [[Chanakya]] and [[Xuanzang]].<ref>Raychaudhuri Hemchandra (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, p.107</ref> In [[Xuanzang]]'s record, two clans were linked with Vajji/Mithila by 646: Vaishali and Vrijji. Vaishali was both Buddhist and Hindu while Vrijji was predominantly Hindu and the capital of it ''Zhanshuna'' (占戍挐, possibly "Cemśoṇa/Cansuna" at [[Baliraajgadh]]<ref>{{isbn|9789867332677}} page 485</ref>).

==The territory==
The territory of Vajji was located north of the [[Ganges]] in [[Bihar]] and extended up to the [[Madhesh]] region. On the west, the [[Gandaki River]] was probably the boundary between Vajji and the [[Malla (India)|Malla]] mahājanapada and possibly also separated it from the [[Kosala]] mahājanapada. On the east, its territory probably extended up to the forests along the banks of the rivers [[Koshi river|Koshi]] and [[Mahananda River|Mahananda]]. The capital of this mahājanapada was [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]]. Other important towns and villages were Kundapura or Kundagrama (a suburb of Vaishali), Bhoganagara and Hatthigama.<ref>Raychaudhuri Hemchandra (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, pp.105, 107</ref>

==Ruling clans==
The rulers of Vajji were a confederacy of the eight clans (''atthakula'') of whom the Vajjis, the [[Licchavi (clan)|Licchavis]], the Kshatrikas and the Videhas were the most important. Manudeva was a famous king of the Licchavi who desired [[Amrapali]] after he saw her dance in [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130517013817/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-31/books/31281015_1_amrapali-nagarvadhu-woman-warrior ]</ref>{{dead link|date=September 2020}} The identities of the other four clans are not certain. However, in a passage of the ''[[Sutrakritanga]]'', the Ugras, the Bhojas, the Kauravas and the [[Solar Dynasty|Ikshvakus]] are associated with the Kshatrikas and Licchavis as the subjects of the same ruler and the members of the same assembly.<ref>Raychaudhuri Hemchandra (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, pp.105-06</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
North India in 540 BCE.png|Map depicting 16 [[mahajanapada]]s kingdoms and other kingdoms of [[vedic era]] India in 540 BC.
Anandastupa.jpg|Ananda Stupa, built by the ''[[Licchavi (clan)|Licchavis]]'' at [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]], which served as the [[Capital (political)|capital]] of Vajji, one of the world's earliest [[republic]]s ([[Gaṇa sangha]]).
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Kingdoms of Ancient India]]
* [[List of rulers of Mithila]]

==References==
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