In 600 B.C., around the time of the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha, India was comprised of many small communities under different rulers, some organized in to kingdoms but for the most part, in to small city states.

• 公元前六百年，大约是在被认为佛陀的乔达摩悉达多诞生前后的时间，印度是由很多不同统治者统治之下的小公社组成，一些组织形成了王国，但更多的部分却只是小型的城邦。