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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient kingdom of northeast India. It was especially powerful from the fourth century BC to the fifth century AD, particularly under the emperor Asoka (third century BC).
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Examples
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The Commentator explains this intrusion of Nāla, a village 'in Magadha, near the Bo-tree' (of Gayā) (see Ps. lix.), by saying it was Upaka's native place, and that the pair had gone to live there.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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237 It is not impossible that Sāvatthi had its Vulture's Peak (Gijjhakūṭa) as well as Rājagaha in Magadha; but the latter peak is the one usually mentioned, and it seems more probable that Curlyhair's legend has been (badly) fitted on to another Bhaddā's Psalm.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Another two years later (643), Li Yibiao and Wang Ce, Tang China's envoys, took this route to arrive in Magadha.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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KHEMĀ, daughter of the King's family at Sāgala in Magadha, wife of King Bimbisāra, Rājagaha, foremost of the Sisters who were distinguished for insight (Ang. Nik., i. 25), ranked by the Buddha as a model Sister (Sany.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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In 322 BCE, Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire in the central region of North India that had been known as Magadha, the homeland of Buddhism.
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions 2007
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Brahmana order, begets a son that is called a Magadha, while the son that he gets upon a Kshatriya woman is called a Vamaka.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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At Sāvatthī, too, is the Buddha found, while he is said to be preaching on the banks of the Nerañjarā in Magadha.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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But even Kaikeyi could not beget a son, and eventually Dasaratha married Sumitra, the princess of Magadha, another kingdom with strong political ties to Ayodhya.
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It is true that the Magadha empire rose at the expense of such republics, but when Alexander invaded India in the fourth century B.C.E., he had to fight against as many republics as kingdoms on his way to Punjab.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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It is true that the Magadha empire rose at the expense of such republics, but when Alexander invaded India in the fourth century B.C.E., he had to fight against as many republics as kingdoms on his way to Punjab.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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