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पैठण (Paiṭhaṇ)

पैठण (Paiṭhaṇ) is a city of 35 thousand (2001)1 located on the left bank of the Godāvari River in the Aurangābād Division of महाराश्त्र2 (Mahārāshtra), भारत (Bhārat or India). The city, as Pratiṣana (or Pratishana) was the capital of the Ṣātavāhana Raj (or empire) from before 200 BCE to after 100 CE.3

YearPopulationPolitical entity
200 BCE60,0004Ṣātavāhana Rāj (Ṣātavāhana empire)
100 CE4Ṣātavāhana Rāj (Ṣātavāhana empire)
2001 CE35,0001भारत (Bhārat or India)

External references

Jain tirth in Paiṭhaṇ, Aurangābād Division, Mahārāshtra, Bhārat (or India)

Historical maps

map showing part of the Ṣātavāhana Rāj (Ṣātavāhana empire), 200 BCE

map showing part of the Ṣātavāhana Rāj (Ṣātavāhana empire), 100 CE

map showing part of the Vatsagulma Rāj (Vatsagulma Branch of the Vākātaka empire), 361 CE

map showing part of the Vākātaka Rāj (Vākātaka empire), 500 CE

map showing part of the Cālyuka Rāj (Cālyuka empire), 622 CE

map showing part of the Rāshtakūta Mahārājadhirāj (Rāshtakūta Empire), 800 - 900 CE

map showing part of the Paramara Rāj (Paramara Kingdom), 1000 CE

map showing parts of the Paramara and Chālukya rāj's (Paramara and Chālukya kingdoms), 1100 CE

map showing parts of the Yādava and Chālukya rāj's (Yādava and Chālukya kingdoms), 1200 CE

map showing part of the Yādava Rāj (Yādava Kingdom), 1300 CE

map showing part of the Bahamani Sultanat (Bahmani Sultanate), 1400 CE

map showing part of the Aḥmadnagar Sultanat (Ahmadnagar Sultanate), 1500 CE

map showing part of the Aḥmadnagar and Mughliyah sultanats (Ahmadnagar Sultanate and Mughal Empire), 1600 CE

map showing parts of the Mughliyah Sultanat (Mughal Empire), 1700 CE

map showing parts of the Peshwadom of Pune (Peshwa) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (British Empire), 1800 CE

map showing part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (British Empire), 1900 CE

map showing part of Bhārat (India), 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. Side banner of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paithan, accessed 9/29/2014.
2. Ideally the final consonant cluster and vowel is rendered by a single ligature for the three akṣaras.
3. Plate III.c.1 map (c) and plate III.c.2 map (b) in Joseph E. Schwartzberg, ed., A Historical Atlas of South Asia (University of Chicago Press, 1978).
4. Estimate in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 200 BCE and 100 CE Pratiṣana was the largest city in what is now महाराश्त्र (Mahārāshtra). In 100 CE its population was smaller than Ecbatana, which was smaller than Smyrna, which had an estimated population of 90 thousand. It was larger than Changan, which was larger than Nanjing, which was larger than Athēnai (Athens), which had an estimated population of 75 thousand.