Sixteen great kingdoms

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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:

  1. Aṅga, (Tib. ཨང་ག, Wyl. ang ga)
  2. Magadha, (Tib. མ་ག་དྷཱ།, Wyl. ma ga d+hA)
  3. Kośala, (Tib. ཀོ་ས་ལ།, Wyl. ko sa la)
  4. Kāśī, (Tib. ཀཱ་ཤི།, Wyl. kA shi)
  5. Vṛji, (Tib. བྲྀ་ཛི།, Wyl. br-i dzi)
  6. Malla, (Tib. མལླ།, Wyl. Malla)
  7. Puṇḍra, (Tib. པུན་དྲ།, Wyl. pun dra)
  8. Srekpa, (Tib. སྲེག་པ།, Wyl. sreg pa)
  9. Kāmā, (Tib. ཀཱ་མཱ། , Wyl. kA mA)
  10. Avanti, (Tib. ཨ་བན་ཏི།, Wyl. a ban ti)
  11. Kuru, (Tib. ཀུ་རུ།, Wyl. ku ru)
  12. Pañcāla, (Tib. ལྔ་ལེན།, Wyl. lnga len)
  13. Vatsa, (Tib. བད་ས།, Wyl. bad sa)
  14. Śūrasena, (Tib. དཔལ་སྡེ། or དཔེ་སྡེ། or དཔའ་སྡེ།, Wyl. dpal sde or dpe sde or dpa’ sde)
  15. Yavana (Tib. ཡ་བ་ན།, Wyl. ya ba na), and
  16. Kamboja. (Tib. ཀམ་པོ།, Wyl. kam po). [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

  1. 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.