State · 413 – 345 BCE

Shaishunaga dynasty

A state of 413 – 345 BCE — 68 years in South Asia. It replaced Haryanka dynasty and Pradyota dynasty. It was replaced by Nanda Empire. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata's English label: Shishunaga 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: 68 years; 413 BCE – 345 BCE
Rulers: 3; the king
Most ground: 799,100 km²; in 404 BCE

Map: Shaishunaga dynasty in 404 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Shaishunaga dynasty in 404 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 799,100 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

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

Haryanka dynasty · replaces · 544 – 413 BCE
Pradyota dynasty · replaces · 682 – 544 BCE

After it

Nanda Empire · replaced by · 345 – 321 BCE

Rulers

The line of king.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Shishunaga	413 BCE – 395 BCE	18 years	ending not on record
Kakavarna Kalashoka	395 BCE – 367 BCE	28 years	ending not on record	child
Mahanandin	367 BCE – 345 BCE	22 years	killedWikidata's manner of death

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 413 BCE – 345 BCE. Median reign 22 years. 0 of 2 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.

799,100 km² in 403 BCE, 799,100 km² in 345 BCE; at its largest 799,100 km² in 403 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 stood68 years
stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held799,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 81% 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 median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 423 BCE – 335 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 404 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 Q972165 (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.