Template talk:Tribes and kingdoms of the Mahabharata

Bharata Khanda
This template has been named "Bharata Khanda and Janapadas." Bharata Khanda is an ill-defined concept. The page on it is in a sorry state without tons of unattended tags. I don't believe it is of a good enough quality to form the basis of a template. Hence, I retitled the template to "Janapadas of Ancient India." Anybody that wants to put Bharata Khanda in the title should first improve the article page with reliable historical sources. - Kautilya3 (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * That's much better. This template should probably be renamed to something more specific though, depending on the sources added (in future) to the article Bharata Khanda. Some of these -- such as Sina and Mlechchha -- were definitely not part of "Bharata". Also, as far as I know, the simultaneous existence of these kingdoms is mentioned only in legendary / semi-legendary texts. So, "Kingdoms mentioned in Mahabharata" or something similar would be better. utcursch &#124; talk 16:02, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * OK, that makes sense. I didn't notice that all these janapadas came from Mahabharata. I will wait for a day for the creator of the template to give his opinion. - Kautilya3 (talk) 19:31, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Since the template creator hasn't responded, I'll go ahead and move the template. utcursch &#124; talk 01:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * @Kautilya3 and Utcursch: How about nominating Bharata Khanda at AfD? TrangaBellam (talk) 14:08, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There is a valid article to be written about Hindu Geography but this is unsalvageable. TrangaBellam (talk) 14:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Nuking everything is always a way out but I am not convinced the title. Gives 27 hits in GScholar, of which about 10 are reliable. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)