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Magadha
Magadha | |||||||||||||
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| 1700 BCE – 550 CE | |||||||||||||
.png) Kingdom of Magadha and other Mahajanapadas during the second urbanization | |||||||||||||
 .png)     Territorial expansion of Magadha-based rulers 6th century BCE onwards | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Rajagriha (Girivraj) Later, Pataliputra (modern-day Patna) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Sanskrit[1] Magadhi Prakrit Ardhamagadhi Prakrit | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Brahmanism Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Māgadhī | ||||||||||||
| Magadha-based dynasties and empires | |||||||||||||
• c. 544 – c. 413 BCE | Haryanka dynasty | ||||||||||||
• c. 413 – c. 345 BCE | Shaishunaga dynasty | ||||||||||||
• c. 345 – c. 322 BCE | Nanda dynasty | ||||||||||||
• c. 322 – c. 185 BCE | Maurya Empire | ||||||||||||
• c. 185 – c. 73 BCE | Shunga Empire | ||||||||||||
• c. 73 – c. 28 BCE | Kanva dynasty | ||||||||||||
• c. 1st cent. BCE – c. 2nd cent. BCE | Extraneous rule by Mitra dynasty (Kosambi) | ||||||||||||
• c. 2nd – c. 3rd CE? | Extraneous rule by Mahameghavahana dynasty | ||||||||||||
• c. 240 – c. 579 BCE | Gupta Empire | ||||||||||||
• c. 6th – c. 8th cent. CE | Later Guptas | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Panas | ||||||||||||
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Magadha was a region in ancient India, named after the ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of Magadha, which was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed and incorporated the other Mahajanapadas. Magadha played an important role in the development of Jainism and Buddhism.[2]
- ^ Jain, Dhanesh (2007). "Sociolinguistics of the Indo-Aryan languages". In George Cardona; Dhanesh Jain (eds.). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. pp. 47–66, 51. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9.
- ^ Damien Keown (26 August 2004). A Dictionary of Buddhism. OUP Oxford. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-157917-2.
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