Rajgir, old name Rajagriha, meaning "The City of Kings," is an ancient city and university town in the district of Nalanda in Bihar, India. As the ancient...

dynasty of Magadha, an empire of ancient India. Initially, the capital was Rajagriha. Later, it was shifted to Pataliputra, near present-day Patna in India...

Puranas, he placed his son at Varanasi and himself ruled from Girivraja (Rajagriha). He was succeeded by his son Kalashoka (Kakavarna). According to the...

7th century Chinese monk Xuanzang, Bimbisara built the city of Rajgir (Rajagriha). He was succeeded on the throne by his son Ajatashatru. Bimbisara was...

of the Ganges; its first capital was Rajagriha (modern day Rajgir), then Pataliputra (modern Patna). Rajagriha was initially known as 'Girivrijja' and...

visiting the Buddha (represented as empty throne) at the Bamboo garden in Rajagriha The great departure with riderless horse, Amaravati, 2nd century CE. The...

figures. The surviving sources all agree in placing Uddaka Rāmaputta in Rajagriha during the Buddha's lifetime, despite being drawn from different schools'...

stood on the southern high road called Dakshinapatha which extended from Rajagriha to Pratishthana (modern Paithan). Avanti was an important centre of Buddhism...

Pratishthana (modern day Paithan) Pundravardhana Pudumadam புதுமடம் Puri Pushkar Rajagriha Now as Rajgir Rajahmahendravaram Rajapura Ramanathapuram Rameshwaram Sagala...

centres of learning in the ancient world, it was located near the city of Rajagriha (now Rajgir), roughly 90 kilometres (56 mi) southeast of Pataliputra (now...

Ashokavadana story, Ashoka was born as Jaya in a prominent family of Rajagriha. When he was a little boy, he gave the Gautama Buddha dirt imagining it...

kingdom was the area of Bihar south of the Ganges; its first capital was Rajagriha (modern Rajgir) then Pataliputra (modern Patna). Magadha expanded to include...

above that. The relics of the Buddha were spread between eight stupas, in Rajagriha, Vaishali, Kapilavastu, Allakappa, Ramagrama, Pava, Kushinagar, and Vethapida...

Abhikshaka; Bandhumati Shikharji 6,584,980 BCE 20 Munisuvrat Aparajitadevaloka Rajagriha; Shikharji Sumitraraja by Padmavati Black Tortoise 60 meters 30,000 years...

Republics by Drona the Brahmin. The eight other Republics or cities were Rajagriha, Vaishali, Kapilavastu, Ramagrama, Pava, Kushinagar, Vethadipa and Pippalivan...

linked by roads with the major cities of ancient India of that time, i.e., Rajagriha, Shravasti, Pataliputra, Varanasi, Champa, Kaushambi, and Taxila. Tamralipta...

though Ahiṃsaka has seduced the master's wife. Jivaka, court doctor at Rajagriha and personal doctor of the Buddha. Charaka, the Indian "father of medicine"...

Pradyota Empire c. 682 – c. 544 BCE Pradyota Rajagriha Haryanka Empire c. 544 – c. 413 BCE Bimbisara Rajagriha (544–490 BCE) Pataliputra (490–413 BCE) Also...

Pippala Cave, Bamboo temple and other monuments, Xuanzang arrived in Rajagriha (present-day Rajgir) and Nalanda University. He stayed and studied at...

important roads, the Shravasti-Pratishthana north–south road, and the Rajagriha-Varanasi-Shravasti-Taxila east–west road. Ancient Buddhist texts, such...

dated to the 1st centuries BCE–CE, show cities such as Kushinagar or Rajagriha as splendid walled cities during the time of the Buddha (6th century BCE)...

Nairanjana Bimbisara with his royal cortege issuing from the city of Rajagriha to visit the Buddha. Foreigners making a dedication to the Great Stupa...

with a large army having sacked Goradhagiri causes pressure on Rajagaha (Rajagriha). On account of the loud report of this act of valour, the Yavana (Greek)...

Alabhika, Panitabhumi, Shravasti, and Pawapuri. He is said to have lived in Rajagriha during the rainy season of the forty-first year of his ascetic life, which...

Pradyota dynasty 682 BCE 544 BCE Rajagriha Prakrit, Sanskrit  India    Nepal Haryanka Dynasty 554 BCE 413 BCE Rajagriha, Pataliputra Prakrit, Sanskrit  India...

the scene of Bimbisara with his royal cortege issuing from the city of Rajagriha to visit the Buddha. Similar scenes would later appear in the Greco-Buddhist...

according to the Majjhima Nikaya, Ajātasattu, the king of Magadha fortified Rajagriha to protect it from an invasion led by Pradyota. He also waged war on Pushkarasarin...

"Harya" Founded 544 BCE Founder Bimbisara Final ruler Nagadasaka Seat Rajagriha (later, Patliputra) Titles King of Magadha Deposition 413 BCE (413 BCE)...

inferred by the remains of fort walls and bastions seen on excavation at Rajagriha and at several sites in the Gangetic plain notably Kaushambi. At the latter...

... city of Gaur before the year 599 A.H. Sen, Amulyachandra (1954). Rajagriha and Nalanda. Institute of Indology. Vol. 4. Calcutta: Calcutta Institute...