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Kingdom of Magadha
Unknown (by 1200 BCE) – 625 CE
Magadha Samrajya aur duusra Mahajanapadas, duusra urbanisation ke time
Magadha Samrajya aur duusra Mahajanapadas,
duusra urbanisation ke time
Magadha ke raaja log ke ilaaka ke barrhan
6th century BCE ke baad
CapitalRajagriha (Girivraj), Baad me,
Pataliputra (abhi ke Patna)
Common languagesSanskrit[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.321 BCE
Nanda dynasty
 c.321 – 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 Kushan Empire
and Mahameghavahana dynasty
 c.240 – c.579 CE
Gupta Empire
 c.6th – c.8th cent. CE
Later Guptas
Historical eraIron Age
CurrencyPanas
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kikata kingdom
Satavahana Empire
Kalinga (Mahameghavanas)
Vidarbha kingdom
Today part of

Magadha, puraana India ke ek ilaaka rahaa , jon eastern Ganges Plain me rahaa. Ii solah Mahajanapadas me se ek rahaa, duusra urbanisation period me. Ii ilaaka pe dher raaj-kul raaj kare rahin jon duusra Mahajanapadas ke kaabu me rakkhis, jiitis aur apne me mile liis rahaa. Magadha ke ek khaas bhimika rahaa Jainism aur Buddhism ke barrhai me[2] aur Maurya Empire (c. 320–185 BCE) ke core rahaa.

Maghada Samrajya, uske aur barra hoe se pahile north, west, aur east me Gaṅgā, Son, aur Campā naddi se gheral rahaa, aur Vindhya mountains ke east iske southern border rahaa. Suruu waala Magadha Samrajya ke ilaaka, abhi ke Patna aur Gaya districts, Bihar hae.[3]

Barraa Magadha ke ilaaka me me parros ke eastern Gangetic plains ke ilaaka rahaa, aur iske ek anikha sankriti rahaa.

Vedic jamaana (semi-legendary) (ca. 1700 BC-6th cent. BCE)

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Atharvaveda (5.22) (ca. 1200-900 BCE) me Magadhas log ke Anga, Gandharis aur Mujavats ke saathe likha hae ki ii non-Vedic tribes hae jon Kuru-Panchala sanjriti se baahar hae.[4]

Kikata sanrajya

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Kuchh gyaani log ii paain hae kie Kīkaṭa tribe ke baare me Rigveda (3.53.14) me likha hae, jispe raaj Pramaganda karat rahaa—aur ii Magadha ke loj ke purwaj hae kaaheki baad ke putak me Kikata aur Magadha ke ekke des maana jaawat rahaa.[5] Jause Magadha log ke baare me Atharvaveda me hae, Rigveda, Kikatas ke ek dusman tribe batae hae, jon Brahmanical India ke siima se bahaar rahaa, jon Vedic sanskaar nai karat rahin, lekin Witzel ii bahas kare hae ki ii sahi nai hae ki Kikatas ke Magadha me rakkhaa jaawe, jaise Rigveda me likha hae "uulog ke [Kikata] ilaaka ke saaf bataawa gais hae ki ii kurukshestra ke south me hae, eastern Rajasthan nai to western Madhya Pradesh me, aur Magadha Rigveda ke time ke nai hae".[6]

Brihadratha dynasty

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Puranas ke anusaar, prasidh[7] Brihadratha raaj-kul Magadha pe pahila raaj kare waala raaj-kul rahaa.

Mahajanapada (6th-4th cent. BCE)

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Rajgir ke diwaal Magadha ke pahile ke capital, Rajgir ke parkramaa kare hae. II dunia ke cyclopean masonry me ek sab se puraana hae

Duusra urbanisation

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Duusra urbanisation, Greater Magadha me c.500 BCE se suruu bhais rahaa, aur yahin jagha pe Jainism aur Buddhism suruu bhais rahaa.[8]

References

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  1. Jain, Dhanesh (2007). "Sociolinguistics of the Indo-Aryan languages". In George Cardona. The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. pp. 47–66, 51. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=OtCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51.
  2. Damien Keown (26 August 2004). A Dictionary of Buddhism. OUP Oxford. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-157917-2. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198605607.001.0001/acref-9780198605607-e-1054?rskey=6R59Bf&result=1.
  3. Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1953). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of Gupta Dynasty. University of Calcutta. pp. 110–118.
  4. Michael Witzel (1987), "On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 7)" in G. Pollet (ed.), India and the Ancient world. History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650
  5. Macdonell, Arthur Anthony; Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1995) (in en). Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 9788120813328. https://books.google.com/books?id=t6TVLlPvuMAC&pg=PA159.
  6. M. Witzel. "Rigvedic history: poets, chieftains, and polities," in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. ed. G. Erdosy (Walter de Gruyer, 1995), p. 333
  7. Chakrabarty, D. K. (2010). The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties. OUP India. ISBN 978-0-19-908832-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=EIAyDwAAQBAJ.
  8. Bronkhorst 2007, p.4: Bronkhorst "It is also in this area that a number of religious and spiritual movements arose, most famous among them Buddhism and Jainism.".