State · 544 – 413 BCE

Haryanka dynasty

A state of 544 – 413 BCE — 131 years in South Asia. It replaced Solar dynasty and followed Kosala and Pradyota dynasty. It was replaced by Shaishunaga dynasty. Its line of rulers holds 5 people. Its own article says it was replaced by Shaishunaga dynasty.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 131 years; 544 BCE – 413 BCE
Rulers: 5; the king
Most ground: 335,900 km²; in 450 BCE

Map: Haryanka dynasty in 450 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Haryanka dynasty in 450 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 335,900 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Haryanka dynasty in 500 BCE, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Haryanka dynasty in 450 BCE, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Solar dynasty · replaces
Pradyota dynasty · follows · 682 – 544 BCE
Kosala · follows · 701 – 501 BCE

After it

Shaishunaga dynasty · replaced by · 413 – 345 BCE

How it ended, as its article says

Replaced by Shaishunaga dynasty. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

This dynasty was succeeded by the Shaishunaga dynasty.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of king.

killed, executed or dead in battleleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Bimbisara	544 BCE – 492 BCE	52 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ajatashatru	492 BCE – 460 BCE	32 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Udayabhadra	460 BCE – 444 BCE	16 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Anuruddha	444 BCE – 441 BCE	3 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Nagadasaka	437 BCE – 413 BCE	24 years	ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term	grandchild

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 544 BCE – 413 BCE. Median reign 24 years. 3 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

33,500 km² in 494 BCE, 335,900 km² in 413 BCE; at its largest 335,900 km² in 444 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood131 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held335,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 67% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median24 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 131

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 557 BCE – 400 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 450 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q12459974 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.