Sixteen great kingdoms
In The Sutra of Vasishtha in the Tibetan Kangyur the sixteen great kingdoms (Skt. Mahājanapada; Tib. ཡུལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་དྲུག, Wyl. yul chen po bcu drug) are listed as:
Aṅga, Magadha, Kośala, Kāśī, Vṛji, Malla, Puṇḍra, Srekpa, Kāmā, Avanti, Kuru, Pañcāla, Vatsa, Śūrasena, Yavana, and Kamboja. [1]
In Aṅguttara Nikāya in the Pali Canon, we find the sixteen kingdoms listed as:
Aṅga, Magadha, Kāsi, Kosala, Vajji, Malla, Ceti, Vaṅga, Kuru, Pañcāla, Maccha, Sūrasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhāra, and Kamboja.
References
- ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.