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Shaishunaga dynasty
Shishunaga Dynasty | |||||||||||||
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| 413 BCE–345 BCE | |||||||||||||
![Approximate extent of the Shisshunaga dynasty.[1]](view.php?q=Shaishunaga_dynasty&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Magadha_Expansion_(6th-4th_centuries_BCE).png) Approximate extent of the Shisshunaga dynasty.[1] | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Rajgir (primary) Vaishali (secondary) later Pataliputra | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Sanskrit Magadhi Prakrit Other Prakrits | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Brahmanism[2] Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||||
• 413–395 BCE | Shishunaga | ||||||||||||
• 395–367 BCE | Kalashoka | ||||||||||||
• 367–355 BCE | Nandivardhana | ||||||||||||
• 355–345 BCE | Mahanandin | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 413 BCE | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 345 BCE | ||||||||||||
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The Shishunaga dynasty (IAST: Śaiśunāga, literally "of Shishunaga") was the second ruling dynasty of Magadha. According to the Hindu Puranas, this dynasty was the second ruling dynasty of Magadha, succeeding Nagadashaka of the Haryanka dynasty.
- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 145, map XIV.1 (a). ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Upinder Singh 2016, p. 273.
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