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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mahapadma Nanda(450 BCE - 362 BCE) was the first king of the Nanda dynasty. Accordingto some sources, he was born from the union of a courtesan and a barberwhile others describe him as an illegitimate son of the last king of theprevious Shishunaga dynasty, Mahanandin. The Nandas, under MahapadmaNanda, established the first great North Indian empire with itspolitical centre in Magadha, which would in the following years lead tothe largest empire in ancient India, to be built by the Mauryas.Mahapadma Nanda vanquished the old dynasties of North, not as wascustomary, to extract tribute from them and to be recognized as the mostpowerful, the samrat or the chakravartin, but rather in order todethrone them and declare himself as an 'ekachhatra', the only emperorin the entire land. The collapse of the old Ksatriya dynasties under therigorous power politics of Mahapadma Nanda, who is explicitly denigratedas the son of a Shudra, and the support extended to followers ofnon-Vedic philosophies, all has been described as negative signs in thePuranas, which often identify Mahapadma Nanda's rise as a mark ofKaliyuga. …