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  CONK! Encyclopedia: History_of_India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Gautama Buddha in the 6th or 5th century BCE was the founder of Buddhism, which later spread to East and Southeast Asia.
The Nanda dynasty was established by an illegitimate son of the king Mahanandin of the previous Shishunaga dynasty.
Mahapadma Nanda died at the age of 88, ruling the bulk of this 100-year dynasty.
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 BEHAR - LoveToKnow Article on BEHAR
According to tradition, it was his grandson, Udaya, who founded the city of Pataliputra (Patna) on the Ganges, which under the Maurya dynasty became the capital not only of Magadha but of India.
The remaining history of the dynasty is obscure; according to Mr Vincent Smith, its last representative was Mahanandin (417 B.C.), after whose death the throne was usurped, under obscure circumstances, by Mahapadma Nanda, a man of low caste (Early Hist, of India, p.
The Nanda dynasty seems to have survived only for two generations, when (321 B.C.) Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the great Maurya dynasty, seized the throne.
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 Chanakya
Maurya, Chandragupta's grandfather, was the son of Mahanandin and Mura.
But Mahanandin had two other sons through his other wife, Sunanda.
Though the overthrow of the king does not cause any protests in the kingdom (since people knew that Mahanandin was incompetent), a brahmin protests against the injustice to the king.
www.geocities.com /Athens/8107/chanakya.html   (3342 words)

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