Back বৎস রাজ্য Bengali/Bangla Vatsa Catalan Ватса CE Vatsa Czech واتسا Persian वत्स Hindi Vatsa Italian ヴァツサ国 Japanese ವತ್ಸ Kannada 밧사 Korean
Kingdom of Vatsa | |||||||||
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| c. 700 BCE–c. 300 BCE | |||||||||
.png) Vatsa and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period. | |||||||||
| Capital | Kauśāmbī | ||||||||
| Common languages | Prakrit Sanskrit | ||||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Maharaja | |||||||||
• 8th century B.C. | Nicakṣu (first) | ||||||||
• 4th century B.C. | Kṣemaka (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
• Established | c. 700 BCE | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 300 BCE | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Allahabad division of Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||
Vatsa or Vamsa (Pali and Ardhamagadhi: Vaccha, literally "calf"[1]) was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.
- ^ Louis Herbert Gray (1902). Indo-Iranian Phonology with Special Reference to the Middle and New Indo-Iranian Languages. Columbia University Press. pp. 169–170.