page_title: Assaka
hierarchical_section_title: Assaka
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of places mentioned in ancient Buddhist Texts (like Anguttara Nikaya), Ramayana and Mahabharata. Sources: (2005) The Hindu Equilibrium: India C.1500 B.C. - 2000 A.D., Oxford University Press, p.&#160;xxxviii ISBN&#58; 978-0-19-927579-3.&#32; Approximate boundaries are described by H.C. Raychaudhuri (p. 96-150), and https://books.google.com/books?id=8qvY8pxVxcwC&amp;pg=PA386 Habib, Irfan, and Habib, Faiz (1995). "A Map of India 600-320 B.C." in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 56, pp. 95–104. www.jstor.org/stable/44158590 Kenoyer, J. M. (1995), “Interaction Systems, Specialised Crafts and Culture Change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia”, in G. Erdosy, The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture, and Ethnicity, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN&#160;9783110144475 Raychaudhuri, H.C. (1972), Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, Calcutta: University of Calcutta. Schwartzberg, J. E. (1992), A Historical Atlas of South Asia: University of Oxford Press Singh, U. (2009), A History of Ancient and Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Delhi: Longman, ISBN&#160;978-81-317-1677-9 Background from http://www2.demis.nl/mapserver/mapper.asp Made with GIMP
context_page_description: Assaka or Asmaka, was a Mahajanapada according to Buddhist texts or Janapada according to Puranas of ancient India which existed between 700 BC and 425 or 345 BC.
context_section_description: Assaka (Pali) or Asmaka (IAST: Aśmaka), was a Mahajanapada according to Buddhist texts or Janapada according to Puranas of ancient India which existed between 700 BC and 425 or 345 BC.
caption: Assaka and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period.
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