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Saurabh Raj Jain as Dhana Nanda: Emperor of Magadha, the most powerful kingdom of India. He belongs to the Shudra (low-caste) Nanda Dynasty, who are by profession barbers. This causes him to have tense relations with the Kshatriyas (a higher caste), which included the Pauravas. He was first mentioned when he refused to join the alliance of the ...
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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. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed and incorporated the other Mahajanapadas.
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He defeated his neighbouring rivals including the king of Kosala; his brothers, at odds with him, went to Kashi, which had been given to Bimbisara as dowry and led to a war between Magadha and Kosala. Ajatashatru occupied Kashi and captured the smaller kingdoms. Magadha under Ajatashatru became the most powerful kingdom in North India.
This marriage also ended the hostility between Magadha and Kosala and gave him a free hand in dealing with the other states. His second wife, Chellana, was a Licchavi princess from Vaishali and daughter of the Jain [23] king Chetaka. [24] His third wife, Kshema, was a daughter of the chief of the Madra clan of Punjab. [25]
The Later Gupta dynasty, also known as the Later Guptas of Magadha, were the rulers of Magadha and Malwa from the 6th to 8th centuries CE. The Later Guptas emerged after the disintegration of the Imperial Guptas as the rulers of Magadha and Malwa however, there is no evidence to connect the two dynasties and the Later Guptas may have adopted the -gupta suffix to link themselves with the ...
It is difficult to assign precise date for the Nanda and other early dynasties of Magadha. [11] Historians Irfan Habib and Vivekanand Jha date the Nanda rule from c. 344 –322 BCE, relying on the Sri Lankan Buddhist tradition which states that the Nandas ruled for 22 years. [ 1 ]