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Mahapadma Nanda (IAST: Mahāpadmānanda; r. c. 345–329 BCE), (died 329 BCE) according to the Puranas, was the first Nanda king of Magadha. The Puranas describe him as a son of the last Shaishunaga king Mahanandin and a Shudra woman. These texts credit him with extensive conquests that expanded the Empire far beyond the Magadha region. The ...
Little information survives on the Nanda administration today. [41] The Puranas describe the Nanda king as ekarat ("single ruler"), which suggests that the Nanda empire was an integrated monarchy rather than a group of virtually independent feudal states. [42] However, the Greek accounts suggest the presence of a more federated system of ...
List of Nanda dynasty rulers Ruler Reign (BCE) Mahapadma Nanda: 345–340 BCE Pandukananda: 340–339 BCE Pandugatinanda: 339–338 BCE Bhutapalananda: 338–337 BCE Rashtrapalananada: 337–336 BCE Govishanakananda: 336–335 BCE Dashasiddhakananda: 335–334 BCE Kaivartananda: 334–329 BCE Dhana Nanda: 329–321 BCE
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The evidence of the Puranas is of two kinds. Of the first kind, there is the direct statement that there were 1,015 (or 1,050) years between the birth of Parikshit (Arjuna's grandson) and the accession of Mahapadma Nanda (400–329 BCE), which would yield an estimate of about 1400 BCE for the Bharata battle. [47]
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There are also analyses of parallel genealogies in the Puranas between the times of Adhisimakrishna (Parikshit's great-grandson) and Mahapadma Nanda. Pargiter estimated 26 generations by averaging 10 different dynastic lists and assuming 18 years for the average duration of a reign, arrived at an estimate of 850 BCE for Adhisimakrishna and ...
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