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The ancient kingdom of Magadha is also mentioned in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata. Based on Jain and Buddhist sources, it appears that Magadha was ruled by the Haryanka dynasty for some 130 years, c. 543 to 413 BCE. [8]
Jarasandha (Sanskrit: जरासन्ध, romanized: Jarāsandha) is a king featured in the Hindu literature.He is the powerful monarch of Magadha, and a minor antagonist in Mahabharata.
Some scholars have identified the Kīkaṭa tribe—mentioned in the Rigveda (3.53.14) with their ruler Pramaganda—as the forefathers of Magadhas because Kikata is used as synonym for Magadha in the later texts; [5] Like the Magadhas in the Atharvaveda, the Rigveda speaks of the Kikatas as a hostile tribe, living on the borders of Brahmanical India, who did not perform Vedic rituals.
The Kingdom of Magadha, later known as the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and later empire in ancient north India.Many houses ruled the kingdom and it's empire over the centuries until it was defeated by the Satavahana Empire in c. 28 BCE.
According to the Puranas, Brihadratha (also Maharatha) was the king of Magadha [2] and the founder of the Brihadratha dynasty. According to the Mahabharata and the Purana, he was the eldest of the five sons of Uparichara Vasu, the Kuru king of Chedi, and his queen was Girika.
Dhanusha was succeeded by his son Sarva (or Urja or Jatu or Jahu or Jantu). Sarva was succeeded by his son Sambhava. According to the Agni Purana, Sambhava was succeeded by his son Jarasandha, [4] the noted warrior king mentioned in the Mahabharata. However, all other Puranic genealogical lists mention the name of Brihadratha again between ...
Sahadeva (Sanskrit: सहदेव) (not to be confused with Sahadeva, the youngest of the Pandavas) was a ruler of the Brihadratha dynasty of Magadha.In the Mahabharata, his name is mentioned as the son of Jarasandha, who was placed on the throne of Magadha by the Pandavas on the former's death in a duel with the Pandava prince Bhima.
Ajatasattu (Pāli Ajātasattu [1]) or Ajatashatru (Sanskrit Ajātaśatru [1]) in Buddhist tradition, or Kunika (Kūṇika) and Kuniya (Kūṇiya) in the Jain histories, [6] (reigned c. 492 to 460 BCE, or c. 405 to 373 BCE [2] [3]) was one of the most important kings of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha in East India.