VidehaLe royaume de Videha de l'Inde ancienne était situé au Népal à l'est de la rivière Gandaki et à l'ouest de la rivière Koshi, au nord du Gange et au sud de l'Himalaya. Sa capitale est Mithila. Contemporainement, la région est divisée entre l'état du nord de l'Inde du Bihar et le Népal. Pendant la période védique tardive (vers -850 à -500), Videha devient un centre culturel et politique dominant de l'Asie du Sud.
AllakappaAllakappa was, in Buddhist tradition, one of the eight republics to whom were given the relics of the Buddha upon his death, or Parinirvana. Initially, the relics had been kept exclusively by the Mallakas of Kusinagara, where the Buddha died, but following the War of the relics, the relics were spread between nine cities or Republics by Drona the Brahmin. The eight other Republics or cities were Rajagriha, Vaishali, Kapilavastu, Ramagrama, Pava, Kushinagar, Vethadipa and Pippalivan.
Histoire de l'IndeL'histoire de l'Inde est particulièrement riche et se divise en trois grandes ères : Des origines à l'Empire moghol (dynasties musulmanes venues de Perse et d'Afghanistan), dominant jusqu'au milieu du . La période coloniale européenne, dont l'Empire britannique des Indes comprenait alors le Bangladesh et le Pakistan actuels, Depuis l'indépendance de l'Inde (1947-).
PāvāPāvā was an important city of the Malla tribe of ancient India at the time of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha. It is located about southeast of Kushinagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The precise location of ancient Pāvā is not known with certainty. Likely candidates include: an ancient site known as Fazilnagar ka kot (ASI SL.# N-UP-P25), located in present-day Fazilnagar, in [[Kushinagar district a large flat-topped mound of ruins known as Jharmatiya (ASI SL.
NāyaNāya (Prākrit: 𑀦𑀸𑀬 Nāya; Pāli: Nāta; Sanskrit: Jñāta) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The population of Nāya, the Nāyikas, were organised into a (an aristocratic oligarchic republic), presently referred to as the Nāya Republic, which was part of the larger Vajjika League. The Nāyikas lived in the territory of the former kingdom of Mahā-Videha, whose borders were the Sadānirā river in the west, the Kauśikī river in the east, the Gaṅgā river in the south, and the Himālaya mountains in the north.
SanchiSânchî est un petit village de l'Inde, situé à au nord-est de Bhopal, dans la partie centrale de l'État du Madhya Pradesh célèbre pour son ensemble de monuments bouddhistes et en particulier le grand stūpa, un des sites parmi les plus visités en Inde. Sanchi n'est pas relié avec le bouddha historique,mais l'une des femmes d'Ashoka aurait habité à Vidisha,ville voisine dont elle portait le nom. Ce fut un lieu de pèlerinage jusqu'au . Sous les Maurya, à l'époque d'Ashoka sans doute, au , on construisit plusieurs édifices et le tumulus du grand stūpa.
Ramagrama stupaRamagrama stupa (रामग्राम नगरपालिका, also Ramgram, Rāmgrām, Rāmagrāma) is a stupa located in Ramgram Municipality, in the Parasi District of Nepal. This site containing relics of Gautama Buddha was constructed between the Mauryan and Gupta periods, according to research by Nepal’s Department of Archaeology. Gautama Buddha's parents were from two different mahājanapadās (kingdoms) of the Solar dynasty — his father (Śuddhodana) belonged to the Shakya kingdom, while his mother (Maya) was from the Koliya kingdom.
