Magadha | |||||||||
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| 1700 BCE – 544 BCE | |||||||||
.png) Magadha and other kingdoms in the Late Vedic period. | |||||||||
.png) Magadha and other Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period. | |||||||||
| Capital | Rajagriha (Girivraj) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Sanskrit[1] Magadhi Prakrit Ardhamagadhi Prakrit | ||||||||
| Religion | Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Māgadhī | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
| Currency | Panas | ||||||||
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Magadha was an ancient India and one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. 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.