BCE and possibly also during the fifth. The Nandas overthrew the Shaishunaga dynasty and expanded the empire to include a larger part of northern India...

in the destruction of the Nanda empire. In another work, Milinda Panha (dating from 100 BCE), Bhaddasala is named as a Nanda general during the conquest...

conquered the Nanda capital Pataliputra and defeated him. This defeat marked the fall of the Nanda Empire and the birth of the Maurya Empire. The Jain tradition...

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assistance of Chanakya, author of the Arthashastra, and overthrew the Nanda Empire in c. 322 BCE. Chandragupta rapidly expanded his power westwards across...

prospect of facing another large empire, presumably the Nanda Empire. Chandragupta defeated and conquered both the Nanda Empire centered in Pataliputra, Magadha...

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his father's military campaigns that expanded and defended the empire. As king, Nanda faced the impossible task of keeping his father's "improbable domain"...

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as Rakshasa, Prime Minister of the Nanda Empire and later the Maurya Empire. Dinesh Mehta as Pandup, Dhana Nanda's elder brother, Prince, Minister of...

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