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<p>103.149.52.197: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}<br /> {{Infobox royalty<br /> | succession = [[Shishunaga dynasty|Shishunaga King]]<br /> | death_date = 345 BCE<br /> | reign = {{circa|355 - 345 BCE}}{{cn|date=March 2018}}<br /> | predecessor = Nandivardhana<br /> | successor = [[Mahapadma Nanda]]<br /> | issue = possibly [[Mahapadma Nanda]] and several others<br /> | father = Nandivardhana<br /> }}<br /> '''Mahanandin''' was the last king of the [[Shishunaga dynasty]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. The dynasty ruled parts of ancient India around the city of [[Pataliputra]] (present day [[Patna]], [[Bihar]]).<br /> <br /> ==Life==<br /> ''[[Puranas]]'' list [[Nandivardhana]] as the ninth [[Shishunaga king]] and his son Mahanandin as the tenth and the last Shishunaga king.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=37}} Mahanandin was killed by his illegitimate son from a ''[[Shudra]]'' wife named [[Mahapadma Nanda]].{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|p=10}}<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> ===Citations===<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ===Sources===<br /> * {{citation |last=Mookerji |first=Radha Kumud |authorlink=Radha Kumud Mukherjee |title=Chandragupta Maurya and his times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-y6ZUheQH8C |edition=4th |year=1988 |origyear=first published in 1966 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |isbn=81-208-0433-3 }}<br /> * {{citation |last=Singh |first=Upinder |author-link=Upinder Singh |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq2iCwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Pearson PLC]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-81-317-1677-9 |ref={{sfnref|Upinder Singh|2016}} }}<br /> * {{citation |last=Smith |first=Vincent A. |authorlink=Vincent A. Smith |editor-last=Jackson |editor-first=A. V. Williams |editor-link=A. V. Williams Jackson |title=History of India, in Nine Volumes |volume=II - From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bP7DzXQBoM4C |date=2008 |origyear=1906 |publisher=[[Cosimo Classics]] |isbn=978-1-60520-492-5 }}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:4th-century BC Indian monarchs]]<br /> [[Category:History of Bihar]]<br /> [[Category:Year of birth missing]]<br /> [[Category:Year of death missing]]<br /> [[Category:Kings of Magadha]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-royal-stub}}</div>

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