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	Magadha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magadha was an ancient kingdom of India, mentioned in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
		The core of the kingdom was that portion of Bihar lying south of the Ganges, with its capital at Rajagriha (modern Rajgir).
		Magadha was also the seat of the Mauryan Empire, founded by Chandragupta, which extended over nearly all India under Asoka; and, later, of the powerful Gupta Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magadha_empire (761 words)

	AllRefer.com - Magadha (South Asian History) - Encyclopedia
		Magadha[mu´gAdu] Pronunciation Key, ancient Indian kingdom, situated within the area of the modern states of Bihar and Jharkhand.
		Magadha fell (c.325) to Chandragupta, who made the kingdom the nucleus of the Mauryan empire.
		Buddhism and Jainism first developed in Magadha, and the Buddha used the Magadhi dialect of Sanskrit.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Magadha.html (193 words)

	IndianNGOs.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The early importance of Magadha may be explained by its strategic position in the Ganges River valley, enabling it to control communication and trade on the river.
		Magadha had an excellent geographic location controlling the lower Ganges and thus drew revenue from both the fertile plain and the river trade.
		The second Magadha dynasty, the Maurya, ruled in the 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC until the city was sacked in 185 by Indo-Greeks.
	www.indianngos.com /historyofpatna.htm (2733 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Magadha was one of the four main kingdoms of India at the time of Buddha, having risen to power during the reigns of Bimbisara (c.
		Magadha formed one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas and had its capital at Rajagaha or Giribbaja where Bimbisara, and after him Ajatashatru, reigned.
		The ancient kingdom of Magadha is identified as having been located in what is now the south of the Indian state of Bihar.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Magadhan_Empire (337 words)

	CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA - LoveToKnow Article on CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During his exile he collected a large force of the warlike clans of the north-west frontier, and on the death of Alexander attacked the Macedonian garrisons and conquer~d the Punjab.
		He next attacked Magadha, dethroned and slew the king, his enemy, with every member of his family, and established himself on the throne (321).
		The great army acquired from his predecessor he increased until it reached the total of 30,000 cavalry, 9000 elephants, and 600,000 infantry; and with this huge force he overran all northern India, establishing his empire from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal.
	46.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHANDRAGUPTA_MAURYA.htm (368 words)

	Encyclopedia: Magadha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 BCE) was a king of the Magadha empire.
		Ajatashatru (ruled 491-461 BCE) was a king of the Magadha empire that ruled north India.
		The Puranas give a rather different list with long reigns, making the ÅiÅunÄga dynasty 321 years long: Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 BCE) was a king of the Magadha empire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Magadha (2552 words)

	A Concise History of India, Chapter 2
		The road to greatness for Magadha began when Bimbisara conquered a secondary state called Anga, in the modern state of Bihar.
		Magadha maintained its preeminent status, but there was no more expansion for the next 140 years.
		Chandragupta I was the third of these, and he made a shrewd move when he married a princess of the Licchavi clan, the current rulers of old Magadha.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /india/in02.html (3178 words)

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		Magadha, Kosala, Vansa, and Avanti) in ancient India.
		The king of Magadha, Bimblisara, became the follower of Shakyamuni.
		He was a Brahman in Magadha, who became one of the Ten Great Disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha.
	www.purifymind.com /glossaryM.htm (1009 words)

	Political and Social Ethics of India by Sanderson Beck
		Magadha rose to imperial power during the long reigns of Bimbisara (c.
		According to Buddhist texts the four kings, who ruled Magadha after Ajatashatru, all killed their fathers, though Jain texts claim that his first successor was an adherent of their religion who was assassinated by his political rival, Palaka, the son of the Avanti king Pradyota, who had become powerful by conquering Kaushambi.
		Pushyamitra was able to drive out the Greeks and ruled for about 36 years, but Buddhists complained that he was a cruel persecutor of their religion who offered gold coins for the killing of monks.
	www.san.beck.org /EC10-Social.html (8673 words)

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		King Pasenadi of Kosala learned that King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi, having organised an army consisting of four elements, was marching towards a village of Kasi Province to wage war against him.
		In the battle King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi, defeated King Pasenadi of Kosala.
		Venerable Sir, King Pasenadi of Kosala learned that King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi, having organised an army consisting of four elements, was marching towards a village of Kasi Province to wage war against him.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /theravada/psangama.htm (480 words)

	Bangla1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Until then in Magadha the armies were loyal to the different tribes but Bimbisara changed this making the armies loyal to himself.
		Magadha is the first kingdom recorded in Indian history that attempted to create a great empire.
		By the time Alexandre conquers northern India in 326 BC, Magadha was a great empire under the Nandas and this was the seed from which the Mauryan empire germinated, retaining the great beaurocracy, army and passion for arts and litterature of the Nanda kings.
	www.geocities.com /raqta24/bangla3.htm (5734 words)

	A Plunderer From Outside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The defeat of Magadha was, of course, absolutely necessary, if the Kalingas were to get back their sacred idol.
		The King of Magadha is one of as.
		Earlier when he heard that Kharavela was about to attack on Magadha he had thought, 'if Kharavela attacks Magadha from the south and I attack from the west at the same time, victory is easy.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/kharavela/page10.htm (755 words)

	Magadha -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The capital of the Mauryan Empire, (Click link for more info and facts about Pataliputra) Pataliputra (modern (Click link for more info and facts about Patna) Patna), was begun as a Magadhan fortress.
		Based on these sources, it appears that Magadha was ruled by the (Click link for more info and facts about Sisunaga dynasty) Sisunaga dynasty for some 200 years, c.
		The army, exhausted and frightened by the prospect of facing another giant Indian army at the Ganges River, army mutinied at the (Click link for more info and facts about Hyphasis) Hyphasis (modern (Click link for more info and facts about Beas) Beas) and refused to march further East.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magadha.htm (393 words)

	Mauryans History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Magadha Empire was the first to rule over North India and they came to south India and occupied there place in karnataka's history.
		The earliest Magadha empire was found by one Sisunaga by about the 4th century B.C. Later on the Magadha empire passed into the hands of Nandas.The founder of Nanda dynasty was Mahapadmananda.
		They even extended their empire to the south as far as Kuntala in Karnataka as stated in the Karnataka inscription of 11th century A.D. Thus, Karnataka formed a part of the Magadha empire under the Nandas.
	www.karnatakacoins.com /mauryan-H.htm (695 words)

	Introduction - Kharvela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kalinga had suffered defeat and was waiting for the right time to teach Magadha a lesson.
		The Magadha had defeated and humiliated the Kalingas a hundred years before.
		Suppose the King of Kalinga had welcomed this attack; suppose he had thought - 'Let this new enemy defeat the King of Magadha, my desire for revenge will be satisfied' – that would have been natural.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/kharavela (261 words)

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		At that time, King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi, having organised an army consisting of four elements, marched towards a village of Kasi Province to wage war against King Pasenadi of Kosala.
		In the battle King Pasenadi of Kosala defeated King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi, and captured him alive.
		In a footnote in the official Pali text of the Sixth Synod it is noted that this paragraph should begin with the words 'Then, King Pasenadi of Kosala, organising an army consisting of four elements, took the offensive against King Ajatasattu of Magadha, son of Queen Vedehi' instead of the present beginning.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /buddhism/tipitaka/dsangama.htm (725 words)

	Kingdom Of Magadha
		Falling briefly under the sway of Alexander the Great and his Macedonian successors, it was conquered in 321 BC by Chandragupta Maurya, who made it the center of his Mauryan Empire.
		Although Magadha declined after the Mauryan dynasty died out in 185 BC, it was raised to new heights of glory under the Gupta dynasty (AD 320-550?), during whose rule a stable peace encouraged intellectual and artistic accomplishments.
		With the disintegration of the Gupta dynasty in the 6th century, Magadha lost its primacy as an Indian power.
	faisal4u.s5.com /related_links/kingdom_magadha.html (204 words)

	South Asia, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In North India, imperial power is centered in the Magadha region, later the core of the Mauryan empire, which in the third century B.C. controls all but the southern tip of India.
		Internecine wars lead to the eventual dominance of the Magadha region in the northeast under two key leaders: Bimbisara (540–493 B.C.) and Ajatashatru (493–461 B.C.).
		, centered on the Magadha region in the northeast, and that of the Seleucids, comprised of the eastern provinces of Alexander's empire after his death.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/04/ssa/ht04ssa.htm (842 words)

	India, 320 BCE to 120 CE
		Chandragupta's counselor and advisor was his adoptive father, Kautilya, who is said to have kept Chandragupta's youthful impulses in check and to have been learned in medicine, Hellenism and Zoroastrianism.
		And it is said that he guided Chandragupta in a bloody war that began two years after Alexander left India, a war that ended with Chandragupta overthrowing the Nanda dynasty that had been ruling the state of Magadha.
		Chandragupta then conquered northward from Magadha, into the Himalayas, and he conquered the rest of northern India.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch13.htm (5181 words)

	Magadha and Srenika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		King Bimbisara (Srenika) of Magadha and his wife Cellana were very ardent devotes of Mahavira.
		He attacked Rajagrha, the then capital of Magadha, but the attack was foiled by Bimbisara's very clever son Abhayakumar, also an ardent devotee of Sri Mahavira.
		Bimbisara is so much respected by the Jainas that he is given the status of a Tirthankara in the next time cycle.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/arhat/magsrenika.htm (130 words)

	Greater India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		No single, all-encompassing empire took shape immediately, but as the earlier inhabitants of the region (the Dravidians) were pushed ever southward, numerous states emerged from the Indus Valley to the Ganges and Brahmaputra River systems, and extending south into the Deccan Plateau.
		One of the smaller states, located north of the Ganges and approaching the Himalayas (the modern India/Nepal frontier) was Sakya, the homeland of Gautama Buddha.
		Two of the largest and most stable were the core of the Mauryan Empire, Magadha, located in the central Ganges plain, and Satavahana, in the central Deccan and the south.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2764 words)

	Magadha and Ashoka Maurya
		Magadha battled with all of its neighbours, and used its superior weaponry (e.g.
		The Nanda throne was overthrown by Candragupta Maurya in 321 BC, who developed Pataliputra as his capital. Candragupta took advantage of the disorder precipitated by Alexander of Macedon’s raid on the Panjab (327-325 BC), and occupied that western heartland of Brahmanism. He gave much support to
		This is indeed the desire of Devanamapriya, that persons of all sects become well-informed about the doctrines of different religions, and acquire
	www.geocities.com /sarabhanga/ashoka.html (548 words)

	Movie Review
		The story is a brief glimpse into the life of Emperor Asoka, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya and the son of Bindusara, who ascended the throne of Magadha in the 3rd century BC.
		Susima's eyes are all set for the throne of Magadha and he makes several attempts to kill Asoka but in vain.
		Finally, Asoka leaves Magadha to save his life and outside Magadha, he meets Princess Kaurwaki (Kareena Kapoor) who too has escaped from Kalinga after her parents were murdered.
	www.onlinebangalore.com /life/movi/asoka (632 words)

	Maharaja Variant - Yellow Player Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After the Magadha kingdom is created, the Blue player chooses any 3 contiguous areas currently occupied by Mauryans counters to form the kingdom of the Mauryans-2.
		After the Malwa are placed, all Gupta tokens in Magadha and areas adjacent to Magadha (excluding Rajput and Malwa areas) are now considered Guptas of Magadha (green).
		If there are no Gupta tokens in any of these areas at the start of Turn 14, place 3 Guptas of Magadha tokens in Magadha and 2 in any adjacent area (excluding Rajput and Malwa areas), currently having the least number of tokens (Guptas of Magadha player chooses in case of ties).
	spotlightongames.com /variant/maharaja/cards-yellow.html (943 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kingdom of Magadha
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kingdom of Magadha
		Magadha, Kingdom of, central power of India from the 6th century bc to the 6th century ad.
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