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Magadha

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Magadha , ancient Indian kingdom, situated within the area of the modern states of Bihar and Jharkhand . Its capital was Pataliputra (now Patna ). The kingdom rose to prominence in the mid-7th cent. BC and rapidly extended its frontiers, especially under the rule of Bimbisara (c.540-c.490). Magadha fell (c.325) to Chandragupta , who made the kingdom the nucleus of the Mauryan empire. After a period of obscurity, it recovered importance in the 4th cent. AD as the power-base of the Gupta dynasty. Buddhism and Jainism first developed in Magadha, and the Buddha used the Magadhi dialect... Read more
Bimbisāra, Seniya
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Bimbisāra, Seniya. King of Magadha at the time of the Buddha . He had ruled for fifteen years when Gautāma, at the age of 30, passed through his capital on ... Read more
Chandragupta
World Encyclopedia Chandragupta Founder of the Maurya Empire in India (r. c. 321–297 bc) and grandfather of Ashoka . He seized the throne of Magadha and defeated Seleucus , gaining dominion over most of n India and part of Afghanistan. His reign was characterized by religious ... Read more

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Coming and going. (poem) (Indian Literatures: In the Fifth Decade of Independence)
World Literature Today; 3/22/1994; Verma, Shrikant; 183 words ; Whenever he went from Kosala to Magadha, on the way back from Magadha to Kosala everyone asked him the same thing-- are you going from Magadha to Kosala, or are you coming from Kosala to Magadha? He tried to evade the question by saying, what difference ... Read more
The Life Mag: Masterpiece of Bollywood.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 10/26/2001; 330 words ; ... identical position. Once persuaded of the dangers of staying in Magadha, he leaves for the calm of Kalinga. Traditional Indian films ... alias name Pawan, meaning wind, marries Kaurwaki but returns to Magadha after learning his mother is gravely ill and is then misled ... Read more
Jainism and Society
Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies; 5/1/2006; Flügel, Peter; 787 words ; ... Vedic religion, originated in the latter part of the first millennium BCE in the altogether different surroundings of "Greater Magadha", where an independent sramana culture of Nigganthas (Jains), AjTvikas, Buddhists and others prevailed which may have been ... Read more
Making emotion visible
China Daily; 6/2/2007; Mu Qian; 274 words ; ... However, Amrapali is rudely awakened from the slumber of living by the terror unleashed with the aggression of Ajatsatru of Magadha. Realizing the transient nature of power, beauty and youth, she joins Lord Buddha's congregation. In the second story, the ... Read more
A palatial feast
New Straits Times; 11/3/2001; Reviewed by K.N. Vijiyan; 531 words ; ... grows up to become a great bloodthirsty swordsman (Shahrukh Khan), bent on winning new land for his father, King Bindusara of Magadha. His stepbrother Susima (Ajit Kumar) fears Asoka will ascend the throne and tries his best to dispose of him. Fearing for his ... Read more
FILM REVIEWS by Brinley Hamer Jones.(Arts)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/26/2001; 396 words ; ... saga which tells the story of one of India's greatest historical characters. In his latter years, the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha converted to being a Buddhist monk, and dedicated his life to the practice of non-violence. This film, however, concentrates ... Read more
Formal practice: Buddhist or Christian.
Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2002; Aitken, Robert; 787 words ; ... ekomon that evokes both kinds of auspicious power--from sutras, and from the sangha--in this case, after a sesshin or retreat: At Magadha, at this very place, deep into the sacred ground, high into the empty sky, broadly shading living things the tre Read more
Context, content, and composition: questions of intended meaning and the Asokan edicts.
Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/2003; Sugandhi, Namita; 787 words ; ... seldom disputed. As legend has it, the first of the Mauryan kings, Chandragupta Maurya, came to power in the state (janapada) of Magadha in the Ganga Valley in the fourth century B.C., supposedly with the aid of the Brahmin Chanakya or Kautilya (R. Thapar 1997a ... Read more
(book review)
Philosophy East and West; 4/1/1999; McClintock, Sara; 787 words ; ... the life span in one of the hells, Blistering, is said to be equal to the time necessary to exhaust the sesame seed stock of Magadha when it is reduced at the rate of one seed per hundred years (p. 130). Similarly, the width of each of the oceans, continents ... Read more
Books received.
Philosophy East and West; 4/1/2008; 787 words ; ... editor, and Walter Kaufmann. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008. Pp. xiii + 1201. Price not given. Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India. By Johannes Bronkhorst. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xix + 414. Hardcover 119 ... Read more

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