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The Mahameghavahana dynasty (Mahā-Mēgha-Vāhana, 2nd or 1st century BC to early 4th century CE [3] [4]) was an ancient ruling dynasty of Kalinga after the decline of the Maurya Empire. [5] In the first century B.C., Mahameghavahana, a king of Chedirastra (or Cetarattha, i.e., kingdom of the Chedis ) [ 6 ] conquered Kalinga and Kosala .
Meghavahana, the first prince of the restored dynasty, is said to have been the son of Gopaditya, a great-grandson of Yudhishthira, living in exile at the court of the king of Gandhara. Meghavahana, who is supposed to have taken possession of the throne of his forefathers at the invitation of the Kashmirian ministers, is described as a strong ...
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Kharavela [a] was the emperor of Kalinga (present-day eastern coast of India) from 193 to 180 BC.The primary source for Kharavela is his rock-cut Hathigumpha inscription.The inscription is undated, only four of its 17 lines are completely legible, others unclear, variously interpreted and disputed by scholars.
Meghavahana: 34 years: 25 CE: Possible coinage of Meghavahana. Circa 7th century CE, Kashmir. [a] [11] Meghavahana was the son of Yudhisthira I's great-grandson, who had been granted asylum by Gopaditya, the king of Gandhara. Meghavahana had been selected the husband of a Vaishnavite princess at a Swayamvara in another kingdom. The ministers of ...
Nabataean Arabic was the dialect of Arabic spoken by the Nabataeans in antiquity. It was succeeded by Paleo-Arabic . In the first century AD, the Nabataeans wrote their inscriptions, such as the legal texts carved on the façades of the monumental tombs at Mada'in Salih , ancient Ḥegrā, in Nabataean Aramaic .
The kingdom of Kuninda (or Kulinda in ancient literature) was an ancient central Himalayan kingdom documented from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, located in the southern areas of modern Himachal Pradesh and far western areas of Uttarakhand in northern India and Doti Gadwall in Nepal.