HIST 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asceticism, Digambara, Makkhali Gosala
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Included animal sacrifices and offerings to 12 jewels (important members of society: ashvamedha (horse sacrifice) Horse is let free and followed by warriors, and ruler claims all of the territories has been to. Defeated rulers come to the sacrifice at the end of the year and pay. Ceremony was intended to gain prosperity, but also a way to show off their wealth for the king: results: Emergence of kingship: clan chief: raja, clan assemblies, e. g. vidatha, poets, poetry, patronage, emergence of systems of gift-giving exchange, emergence of rudimentary administration. Rise of city states and growth of urbanism (c. 600-300 bce) The 16 mahajanapadas (the great kingdoms: kamboja, kosala, gandhara, malla, kuru, vrijji, panchala, anga, matsya, chetiya, avanti, vatsa, shurasena, magadha, assaka, kashi. Urbanism: by 600 bce emergence of the 16 mahajanapadas (kuru, panchla, kosala, magadha, matsyanyaya: law of the fishes, clan oligarchies: (e. g. malla, vrijji, non-uniform urbanization (middle gangetic plains more urbanized, use of iron in agricultural instruments (500 bce)
