Magadha

[muhg-uh-duh, mah-guh-]

noun

1. an ancient kingdom of NE India, in present-day W central Bihar state, S of the Ganges: flourished between the 8th and 6th century b.c.

Example Sentences

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.

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A remote mountain road patrolled by rhesus monkeys led us to Rajgir, the former capital of the Magadha empire.

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The grassy hillocks are rubble from the powerful Magadha empire, whose kings funded the world’s first Buddhist monasteries, more than two millennia ago.

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It's hard to imagine that in ancient times Bihar was the centre of the flourishing Magadha empires and the region where the Buddha lived and attained enlightenment.

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His parents were Suddhodana, King of Magadha, and his consort Maja.

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