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Magadha

Magadha was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the . It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period.
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is the capital of and the second largest metropolis in eastern . The city has a glorious past and is now a bustling up-and-coming metropolis.

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is a major pilgrimage city in for Hindus. It is visited for doing piṇḍ dān and for visiting and Vishnupad temple.

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, located in the state of Bihar, the town holds immense spiritual significance as the site where Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment. It is considered the most revered of all Buddhist sacred sites and forms a key part of the Buddhist Circuit.

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is a city in in . It is 15 km from the ruins of Nalanda University, and 100 km from , the capital of the state.

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is a city in the region of , India. The town contains three tombs of Sur kings and a couple of related monuments. lies on the Grand Trunk Road, which was refurbished by Sher Shah Suri.

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is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of . It is situated near the junction of the Ghaghara River and the Ganges River.

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is a town of 300,000 people in , . It is east of the Paimar River, a tributary of the Ganges River. The old centre of town has examples of medieval Islamic architecture, such as the Bukhari Mosque.

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The Barabar Hill Caves in Magadha region of state are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India.

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, 101 kilometers from Patna and 38 kilometers from Rajgir, or Pava is a holy site for Jains.

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also known as Dev is a city council, town and a notified area in , Block of in the Indian state of . is located 10 km to the southeast of District Administrative .

Magadha

Latitude of center
25.611° or 25° 36′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
85.144° or 85° 8′ 38″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q234009
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Magadha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مملكة ماجادها”
  • Asturian: “Magadha”
  • Bashkir: “Магадха”
  • Basque: “Magadha”
  • Belarusian: “Магадга”
  • Belarusian: “Магадха”
  • Bengali: “মগধ”
  • Bhojpuri: “मगध जनपद”
  • Bhojpuri: “मगध महाजनपद”
  • Bhojpuri: “मगध साम्राज्य”
  • Bhojpuri: “मगध”
  • Bulgarian: “Магадха”
  • Burmese: “မဂဓတိုင်း”
  • Catalan: “Magadha”
  • Catalan: “Maghada”
  • Chechen: “Магадха”
  • Chinese: “Magadha”
  • Chinese: “摩伽陀”
  • Chinese: “摩伽陀國”
  • Chinese: “摩揭陀”
  • Chinese: “摩揭陀国”
  • Chinese: “摩揭陀王國”
  • Chinese: “摩竭陀”
  • Croatian: “Magadha”
  • Czech: “Magadha”
  • Czech: “Magadhská říše”
  • Czech: “Magadhsko”
  • Dutch: “Magadha”
  • Esperanto: “Magadha”
  • Esperanto: “Magadho”
  • Esperanto: “Magado”
  • Finnish: “Magadha”
  • French: “Magadha”
  • French: “Maghada”
  • French: “royaume de Magadha”
  • French: “Royaume de Magadha”
  • Galician: “Magadha”
  • Georgian: “მაგადჰა”
  • German: “Magadha”
  • Greek: “Μαγκάντα”
  • Hebrew: “מאגאדה”
  • Hebrew: “מגדהה”
  • Hindi: “मगध जनपद”
  • Hindi: “मगध महाजनपद”
  • Hindi: “मगध”
  • Hungarian: “Magadha”
  • Indonesian: “Kekaisaran Magadha”
  • Indonesian: “Kerajaan Magadha”
  • Indonesian: “Magadha”
  • Italian: “Impero Magadha”
  • Italian: “Magadha”
  • Italian: “Maghada”
  • Italian: “Regno Magadha”
  • Japanese: “マガタ”
  • Japanese: “マガダ”
  • Japanese: “マガダ国”
  • Japanese: “マガダ帝国の年表”
  • Kannada: “ಮಗಧ”
  • Korean: “마가다 왕국”
  • Korean: “마가다 제국”
  • Korean: “마가다”
  • Korean: “마가다국”
  • Korean: “마갈타”
  • Lithuanian: “Magadha”
  • Macedonian: “Магада”
  • Maithili: “मगध”
  • Malay: “Magadha”
  • Malayalam: “Magadha Empire”
  • Malayalam: “Magadha”
  • Malayalam: “മഗധ സാമ്രാജ്യം”
  • Malayalam: “മഗധ”
  • Manchu: “ᠮᠣ ᡤᡳᠶᠠ ᡨᠣ ᡤᡠᠸᡝ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ”
  • Marathi: “मगध साम्राज्य”
  • Marathi: “मगध”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Magadha”
  • Mingrelian: “მაგადჰა”
  • Nepali: “मगध”
  • Newari: “मगध”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Magadha”
  • Norwegian: “Magadha”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਗਧ”
  • Persian: “پادشاهی مگادا”
  • Persian: “ماگدها”
  • Polish: “Magadha”
  • Portuguese: “Magadha”
  • Portuguese: “Período Magadha”
  • Portuguese: “Reino de Mágada”
  • Portuguese: “Reis de Magadha”
  • Romanian: “Magadha”
  • Russian: “Магадха”
  • Sanskrit: “मगध”
  • Sanskrit: “मगधः”
  • Sanskrit: “मगधदॆश:”
  • Serbian: “Магада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magadha”
  • Sinhala: “මගධ - නන්ද - පළමු රජ පෙළපත”
  • Sinhala: “මගධ”
  • Slovenian: “Magadha”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماگدها”
  • Spanish: “Imperio Magadha”
  • Spanish: “Magadha”
  • Spanish: “Maghada”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Magadha”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Maghada”
  • Swedish: “Magadha”
  • Swedish: “Magadhariket”
  • Swiss German: “S Riich vo Magadha”
  • Tamil: “மகத நாடு”
  • Telugu: “మగధ సామ్రాజ్యం”
  • Telugu: “మగధ సామ్రాజ్యము”
  • Telugu: “మగధ”
  • Thai: “Magadh”
  • Thai: “Magadha Empire”
  • Thai: “Magadha”
  • Thai: “Magadhan Empire”
  • Thai: “แคว้นมคธ”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ག་དྷ་”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Magadha”
  • Turkish: “Magadha Krallığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Магадга”
  • Ukrainian: “Маґадга”
  • Ukrainian: “Магадха”
  • Urdu: “سلطنت مگدھ”
  • Urdu: “مگدھ مہا جن پد”
  • Uzbek: “Magadha”
  • Venetian: “Regno Magadha”
  • Vietnamese: “Đế quốc Magadha”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma Kiệt Đà”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-kiệt-đà”
  • Vietnamese: “Magadha”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Ma-kiệt-đà”
  • Western Panjabi: “مگدھ مہاجنپد”
  • Western Panjabi: “مگدھ”
  • Wu Chinese: “摩揭陀”
  • Yue Chinese: “摩揭陀”
  • “मगध”

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