According to the Jain accounts a terrible famine ravaged North India in the time of ……………… and lasted for twelve years.

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• When the famine ended, the emigrants came back to the North and found that the Jains who remained in North India had given up their original strict Jain way of life.They were condemned by the followers of ………………. as heretics.
• Half of the Jain community lead by their saints Badrabahu moved and settled down in a place called Sravana Balgola in …………….
• The Jain tradition regards ………….. as the founder of Jainism.
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• In the age of the ……………., 16 large states called Mahajanapadas were flourishing in North India.
• ‘Indica’ is the accounts on India prepared by …………….
• But in recent years, archaeologists have made use of scientific tests like carbon test and fixed the period of ……………. civilization from 2300 to 1750 B.C.
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• The ……………. describes the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. According to tradition, Vyasa was its compiler.