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Question
With reference to the Vedic age, answer the question that follows:
How did the kingdoms expand during the Later Vedic period?
Solution
During the Later Vedic period, vast kingdoms were established, both through merger of villages and conquests. ‘Ashvamedha Yajna’ was performed for challenging the other kings to fight and transfer their realms to the winner king. In this way a king was to become from king to a ‘Chakravarti Samrat’, like the emperor Ashoka in later Mauryan period.
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