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55 relations: Abhira tribe, Agnimitra, Ajatashatru, Ashoka, Bhagavata Purana, Bindusara, Brahma Purana, Bronze Age, Buddhism, Chandragupta Maurya, Digha Nikaya, Gautama Buddha, Heheya Kingdom, Hinduism, India, Iron Age, Jainism, Janapada, Karusha Kingdom, Kathasaritsagara, Kisari Mohan Ganguli, Kosambi, Madhya Pradesh, Magadha, Mahabharata, Mahajanapada, Maharaja, Mahavira, Mahishmati, Malwa, Maurya Empire, Mṛcchakatika, Monarchy, Nanda Empire, Pakistan, Pradyota, Punjab, Pakistan, Pushyamitra Shunga, Rajasthan, Rajgir, Recorded history, Rudradaman I, Sanskrit, Saurashtra (region), Shishunaga, Shishunaga dynasty, Stupa, Taxila, Udyoga Parva, Ujjain, ..., Vatsa, Vidisha, Vindhya Range, Vishnu Purana, Yadu. Expand index (5 more) »
Abhira tribe
The Abhira tribe were a people mentioned in ancient Indian epics and scriptures as early as the Vedas.
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Agnimitra
Agnimitra (अग्निमित्रः) was the second king of the Shunga dynasty of northern India.
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Ajatashatru
Ajatashatru (Pali: Ajātasattu; Kunika; or early 4th century BCE) was a king of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha in North India.
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Ashoka
Ashoka (died 232 BCE), or Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from to 232 BCE.
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Bhagavata Purana
Bhagavata Purana (Devanagari: भागवतपुराण) also known as Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahā Purāṇa, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata, is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas, great histories).
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Bindusara
Bindusara was the second Mauryan emperor of India.
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Brahma Purana
The Brahma Purana (ब्रह्म पुराण) is one of the eighteen major Puranas genre of Hindu texts in Sanskrit language.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya (reign: 321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India.
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Digha Nikaya
The Digha Nikaya (dīghanikāya; "Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture, the first of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of (Theravada) Buddhism.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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Heheya Kingdom
In the Mahabharata epic, the Heheya Kingdom (also known as Haihaya, Haiheya, Heiheya, etc.) is one of the kingdoms ruled by Yaduvanshi Kshatriya kings in the central and western India.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Jainism
Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.
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Janapada
The Janapadas were the realms, republics (GanaPada) and kingdoms (SaamaRajya) of the Vedic period on the Indian subcontinent.
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Karusha Kingdom
The Karusha Kingdom is one of the Yadava kingdoms of the Mahabharata epic.
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Kathasaritsagara
The Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold in Sanskrit by a Shaiva named Somadeva.
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Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Kisari Mohan Ganguli (also K. M. Ganguli) was an Indian translator, who is most known for the first (and thus far only) free English translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata published as The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose between 1883 and 1896 by Pratap Chandra Roy (1842–1895), a Calcutta bookseller, who owned a printing press, and collected funds for the project to translate the 18 books of the Mahabharata.
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Kosambi
Kosambi (Pali) or Kaushambi (Sanskrit) was an important city in ancient India.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.
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Magadha
Magadha was an ancient Indian kingdom in southern Bihar, and was counted as one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: "Great Countries") of ancient India.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Mahajanapada
Mahājanapada (lit, from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a tribe, country") was one of the sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE.
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Maharaja
Mahārāja (महाराज, also spelled Maharajah, Moharaja) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or "high king".
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Mahavira
Mahavira (IAST), also known as Vardhamāna, was the twenty-fourth Tirthankara (ford-maker) of Jainism which was revived and re-established by him.
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Mahishmati
Mahishmati (IAST: Māhiṣmatī) was an ancient city in present-day central India.
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Malwa
Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.
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Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire was a geographically-extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between 322 BCE and 180 BCE.
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Mṛcchakatika
(मृच्छकटिका), also spelled Mṛcchakaṭikā, Mrchchhakatika, Mricchakatika, or Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Śūdraka (शूद्रक), an ancient playwright generally thought to have lived sometime between the 3rd century BC and the 5th century AD and identified by the prologue as a Kshatriya king as well as a devotee of Siva who lived for 100 years.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.
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Nanda Empire
The Nanda dynasty originated from the region of Magadha in ancient India during the 4th century BCE and lasted between 345–321 BCE.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Pradyota
Pradyota was the founder of Pradyota dynasty and a ruler of Avanti.
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Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi:, panj-āb, "five waters") is Pakistan's second largest province by area, after Balochistan, and its most populous province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017.
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Pushyamitra Shunga
Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST) was the founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire in East India.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).
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Rajgir
Rajgir (originally known as Girivraj) is a city and a notified area in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Recorded history
Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication.
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Rudradaman I
Rudradaman I (r. 130–150) was a Saka ruler from the Western Kshatrapas dynasty.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Saurashtra (region)
Saurashtra, also known as Sorath or Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.
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Shishunaga
Shishunaga (or Shusunaga) (c. 413 – 395 BCE) was the founder of the Shishunaga dynasty of the Magadha Empire in the present day northern India.
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Shishunaga dynasty
The Shishunaga dynasty is believed to have been the second ruling dynasty of Magadha, an empire of ancient India.
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Stupa
A stupa (Sanskrit: "heap") is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (śarīra - typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
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Taxila
Taxila (from Pāli: Takkasilā, Sanskrit: तक्षशिला,, meaning "City of Cut Stone" or " Rock") is a town and an important archaeological site in the Rawalpindi District of the Punjab, Pakistan, situated about north-west of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, just off the famous Grand Trunk Road.
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Udyoga Parva
The Udyoga Parva (उद्योग पर्व), or the Book of Effort, is the fifth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata.
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Ujjain
Ujjain is the largest city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Vatsa
Vatsa or Vamsa (Pali and Ardhamagadhi: Vaccha, "literally calf") was one of the solaha (sixteen) Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Anguttara Nikaya.
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Vidisha
Vidisha is a city in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Vindhya Range
The Vindhya Range(also known as Vindhyachal)() is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.
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Vishnu Purana
The 'Vishnu Purana' (IAST: Viṣṇu Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism.
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Yadu
Yadu is one of the five Indo-Aryan tribes (panchajana, panchakrishtya or panchamanusha) mentioned in the Rig Veda.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avanti_(India)
