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Jain tradition holds that Parshvanatha, the twenty third tirthankara and the immediate predecessor of Mahavira, was born at Varanasi as a prince of that city, and he is remembered as the teacher whose followers Mahavira's order absorbed.

Kosala lay in the central and eastern plain of Uttar Pradesh with Shravasti as its capital and Saketa, the Ayodhya of today, as a second centre.

The capital of the Ashokan pillar at Sarnath carries four lions standing back to back on an abacus bearing four wheels and four animals, and it was adopted as the State Emblem of India on 26 January 1950.

Kushinara, the Kushinagar of today in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was a town of the Malla mahajanapada, and the Buddha died there between two sal trees at the age of eighty, a death traditionally dated to 483 BCE and remembered as the mahaparinirvana.

After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.

The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.

Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.

The Pampas is the temperate grassland of Argentina and Uruguay, a flat and fertile region of wheat farming and cattle ranching.

Milpa is the local name for the slash and burn farming of Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring countries, in which a forest patch is cleared and burnt, cropped with maize, beans and squash for a few seasons and then left to recover.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, and formerly of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

The Maori are the Polynesian people who settled New Zealand before European contact. Their ceremonial war dance, the haka, is widely known, their meeting house is the marae, and the Maori language is one of the official languages of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa.

The Inuit, earlier called Eskimo, live along the Arctic coasts of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In winter they build the igloo, a dome of cut snow blocks, and in summer they live in the tupik, a tent of animal skin.

The Sami are the indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and of the Kola peninsula in Russia, a region often called Lapland.

The Bedouins are Arabic speaking nomads of the Arabian peninsula and the Syrian desert, who move with camels, sheep and goats between wells and seasonal pasture.

The Bushmen or San are hunter gatherers of the Kalahari desert, which lies across Botswana, Namibia and part of South Africa.

The Pygmy peoples, among them the Mbuti of the Ituri forest, the Baka and the Efe, live in the dense equatorial rainforest of Central Africa.

The Masai are semi nomadic cattle herders of the East African savanna grassland, living in and around the Great Rift Valley.

Kota recorded the highest literacy of any district of Rajasthan in 2011, which fits its character as an industrial and coaching city with a largely urban population.

The Kathodi are a small tribe who moved into Rajasthan from Maharashtra and live in the forest tracts of Udaipur, particularly Jhadol and Kotra.

The Garasia are the third largest tribe of Rajasthan and live on the southern slopes of the Aravalli, in the Abu Road and Pindwara tracts of Sirohi and in Kotra and Jhadol in Udaipur, with some in Pali.