Shakya

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Shakya (Pāḷi: Sakya; Sanskrit: Śākya) was an ancient tribe of north-eastern South Asia, possibly of Munda origin, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The Shakyas were organised into a gaṇasaṅgha (an aristocratic oligarchic republic), known as the Shakya Republic. The Shakyas were on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain in the Greater Magadha cultural region.

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