janapada

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) suburban
 * 2) country, land

Etymology
. Compare Sanskrit. The term might not date back to the common ancestor of Pali and Sanskrit; the Sanskrit term has no attestation earlier than c. 600 BC.

Noun

 * 1) countryside
 * 2) country, province
 * 3) inhabited region, continent