Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1201 – 345 BCE

Magadha

A state of 1201 – 345 BCE — 856 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Nanda Empire. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.

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

Stood
856 years
1201 BCE – 345 BCE
Rulers
8
the king
Most ground
5,100 km²
in 600 BCE
Within it
2
recorded rows
Map: Magadha in 600 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Magadha in 600 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 5,100 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Nanda Empire: 345 BCE – 321 BCEMagadha: 1201 BCE – 345 BCE

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.

After it

Rulers

The line of king.

Bimbisara · 544 BCE – 492 BCE · left office aliveAjatashatru · 492 BCE – 460 BCE · killedUdayabhadra · 460 BCE – 444 BCE · killedAnuruddha · 444 BCE – 441 BCE · killedNagadasaka · 437 BCE – 413 BCE · ended by a named eventShishunaga · 413 BCE – 395 BCE · no death date to read the end againstKakavarna Kalashoka · 395 BCE – 367 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMahanandin · 367 BCE – 345 BCE · killed1200 BCE1000 BCE800 BCE600 BCE400 BCE
killed, executed or dead in battleleft alive by a regular roadending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Bimbisara544 BCE – 492 BCE52 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ajatashatru492 BCE – 460 BCE32 yearskilledWikidata's manner of deathchild
Udayabhadra460 BCE – 444 BCE16 yearskilledWikidata's manner of deathchild
Anuruddha444 BCE – 441 BCE3 yearskilledWikidata's manner of deathchild
Nagadasaka437 BCE – 413 BCE24 yearsended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the termgrandchild
Shishunaga413 BCE – 395 BCE18 yearsending not on record
Kakavarna Kalashoka395 BCE – 367 BCE28 yearsending not on recordchild
Mahanandin367 BCE – 345 BCE22 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 544 BCE – 345 BCE. Median reign 23 years. 3 of 7 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.

560 BCE540 BCE520 BCE

5,100 km² in 576 BCE, 5,100 km² in 501 BCE; at its largest 5,100 km² in 576 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1300 BCE – 1201 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1300 BCE1200 BCE – 1101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1200 BCE1100 BCE – 1001 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1100 BCE1000 BCE – 901 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1000 BCE900 BCE – 801 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900 BCE800 BCE – 701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800 BCE700 BCE – 601 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 BCE600 BCE – 501 BCE: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other600 BCE500 BCE – 401 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 BCE400 BCE – 301 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other400 BCE

600 BCE – 501 BCE2 rows

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 stood856 years

    stood longer than 96% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held5,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 10% 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 record8

    has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 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.

Magadha · 1201 BCE – 345 BCEMagadhaNanda Empire · Linked · 345 BCE – 321 BCENanda Empire1200 BCE1000 BCE800 BCE600 BCE400 BCE
linked

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

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q234009 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.