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| | Magadha and Ashoka Maurya |
 | | Gautama Buddha (6th Century BC), the land of Magadha was ruled by the wise King Bimbisara, whose city of Rajagriha (modern Rajgir, near Gaya, Bihar) controlled nearby iron-mines. |
 | | He was, however, murdered by his son Ajatashatru in 493 BC, who established a fort at Pataliputra (Patna), by the Ganga and near to her confluence with the Gandaki, Sona, and Ganghara Rivers. Ajatashatru was also murdered (461 BC) by his impatient heir ~ and so too, the next five generations. |
 | | 232 BC), most of the subcontinent (from the Makran Coast in the west, and north to the Hindu Kush, eastwards beyond the Ganges Delta, and south to the Kaveri River) came under Mauryan rule, and the influence of Buddhism. |
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