Magadha
Americannoun
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Pali was and still is the common tongue of the Magadha region, where Prince Siddhartha Gautama lived a life of luxury before renouncing wealth to attain enlightenment.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
Out of this strife emerged a major kingdom: Magadha.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Under a series of ambitious kings, Magadha began expanding in the sixth century B.C. by taking over surrounding kingdoms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Magadha had expanded south to occupy almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
He therefore bade Buddhaghosa repair to Ceylon and translate these Sinhalese works into the idiom of Magadha, by which Pali must be meant.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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