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Siddhartha was born in Lumbini[7] and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilvastu, both of which are in modern day Nepal. The area was probably Indo Aryan in culture and part of the Vedic civilization of ancient India, but at the time of the Buddha's birth, Kapilavastu was a minor state on the boundary of the Vedic civilization; it is even slightly possible that his mother tongue was not an Indo-Aryan language, although he most likely spoke a Prakrit decended from Sanskrit.[8] At the time, a multitude of small city-states existed in ancient India, called janapadas. Republics and chiefdoms with diffused political power and limited social stratification, were not uncommon amongst them, and were refered to as gana-sanghas.[9] The Buddha's community does not seem to have had a caste system, and their society was not structured according to Brahminical theory. It was not a monarchy, and seems to have been structured either as an oligarchy, or as a form of republic.[10] The more egalitarian gana-sangha form of government, as a political alternative to the strongly hierarchical kingdoms, may have influenced the development of the Shramana type Jain and Buddhist sanghas, where monarchies tended toward Vedic Brahmanism.[11]

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