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Magadha was a region in ancient India, named after an ancient kingdom of the same name, which was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period, based in the eastern Ganges Plain.
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.
Magadh division is an administrative geographical unit of Bihar state of India. Gaya is the administrative headquarters of the division. Currently (2005), the division consists Gaya district , Nawada district , Aurangabad district , Jehanabad district , and Arwal district .
[1] [2] The location of shakhas is labeled in maroon. Greater Magadha is a theory in the studies of the ancient history of India , introduced by Johannes Bronkhorst . [ 1 ] It refers to the non-Vedic political and cultural sphere that developed in the lower Gangetic plains (modern day Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh ), east of the Vedic ...
Magadh Opencast Project was identified for a rated capacity of 12.0 million tonnes per year for supplying coal to the North Karanpura Thermal Power Station (3X660 MW) of NTPC Limited at Tandwa. Estimated mineable reserve of Magadh OCP was 351 million tonnes. It is operating in 4 coal blocks: Magadh, Tandwa, Dumargarh and Karimati.
Map of Magadh region. The culture of Magadh is rich with its distinct language, folk songs and festivals. In ancient period it was known as Magadha mahajanpada. The present-day Magadh region split between the states of Bihar and Jharkhand in India. The major language of the region is Magahi. [1] [2] [3]
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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.