Question

The list of sixteen Mahajanapadas is available in?
a. Mahabharat
b. Anguttara Nikaya
c. Chandogya Upanishad
d. Samyuktha Nikaya

Answer 1

Hint:
The Anguttara Nikaya is Buddhist sacred writing, the fourth of the five nikayas, or assortments, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three containers" that include the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

Complete solution:
Sixteen states or Mahajanapadas are referenced in the Buddhist Jatakas, Anguttara Nikaya. The Anguttara Nikaya is Buddhist sacred writing, the fourth of the five nikayas, or assortments, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three containers" that include the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

Anguttara Nikaya ("Item-more Collection"; Sanskrit Ekottarikagama), a mathematical course of action, for mental aide purposes, of 9,557 brisk suttas. Its first nipata ("gathering") contains suttas managing single things, for example, the psyche or the Buddha; the suttas in the second nipata discuss sets—e.g., 2 sorts of wrongdoing; in the third, there are trios, etc up to 11. Models are the 3 excellent acts, the 4 spots of a journey, the 5 impediments, the 6-crease obligation of a priest, 7 sorts of abundance, 8 reasons for tremor, 9 kinds of individual, 10 objects of examination, and 11 sorts of joy.

The Buddha himself would not spread his education by intriguing his crowd with supernatural occurrences. As per the Anguttara Nikaya, one of the assortments of the Buddha's expressions, there are three sorts of supernatural occurrences—the marvel of enchantment, the marvel of thought perusing, and the wonder of guidance—and of these, the latter is the most brilliant and amazing, while the other two are very little better than a conjuror's stunts.

Hence, the correct answer is option B.

Note:
This Nikaya comprises a few thousand talks credited to the Buddha and his main pupils organized in eleven nipatas, or books, as per the number of dhamma things referred to in them.