Pataliputra
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Pataliputra Each city had a history of its own. Pataliputra, for instance, began as a village known as Pataligrama. Then, in the fifth century BCE , the Magadhan rulers decided to shift their capital from Rajagaha to this settlement and renamed it. By the fourth century BCE , it was the capital of the Mauryan Empire and one of the largest cities in Asia. Subsequently, its importance apparently declined. When the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang visited the city in the seventh century CE , he found it in ruins, and with a very small population. Fig. . The gift of an image This is part of an image from Mathura.
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Pataliputra Each city had a history of its own. Pataliputra, for instance, began as a village known as Pataligrama. Then, in the fifth century BCE , the Magadhan rulers decided to shift their capital from Rajagaha to this settlement and renamed it. By the fourth century BCE , it was the capital of the Mauryan Empire and one of the largest cities in Asia.
Subsequently, its importance apparently declined. When the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang visited the city in the seventh century CE , he found it in ruins, and with a very small population. Fig. .
The gift of an image This is part of an image from Mathura. On the pedestal is a Prakrit inscription, mentioning that a woman named Nagapiya, the wife of a goldsmith ( sovanika ) named Dharmaka, installed this image in a shrine.
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