Magadha

American  

[muhg-uh-duh, mah-guh-] / ˈmʌg ə də, ˈmɑ gə- /

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.

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Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

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.

From Reuters

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

From Project Gutenberg

The Greeks were indeed told that, before Alexander the Great, no foreign conqueror had ever invaded India; and even after this invasion, and on the death of Sandracottus, when the Indians were liberated from the transient dominion of the Greeks, they were for a long lapse of ages governed by native princes; and their country was parcelled out into a number of great and petty kingdoms, such as those of Magadha, Ayodha, &c.

From Project Gutenberg