Articles discussing Magadha
The Riddle of the Pradyota Dynasty
Jyotirmoy Sen · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1930
“Mr. H. K, Deb? takes his stand ૦11 the testimony of the Matsya Puriina and ingeniously suggests that the real meaning in the Mt, account suppoits the theory that Pradyota became king of Avants, not of Magadha, after the extinction of the Barhadrathas,”
Kaumudi-Mahotsava - Its Historical Interpretation
Kailash Chandra Ojha · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1956
Adisura
Yatis and Vratyas
J. C. Sikdar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1983
“According to the literary evidences, it is possible to locate their settlement in the east particularly in Magadha because of their association with its people.”
Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India
Nalinaksha Dutt, U. N. Ghoshal · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1951
“At the time of the fall of Magadha he went to the north and on his way to Tirahuti he brought a vicious buffalo, which had appeared in the forest, under his power by his magic glance, so that it licked his feet and accompanied him for about one yojana.”
Identification of Parvataka and Porus
Pusyamitra and the Sunga Empire
The Puranas on the Imperial Guptas
Dasharatha Sharma · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1954
““Kings born of the Gupta વા) will enjoy all these ૬૯1116૦11૯5, viz., Prayaga (Allahabad) on the Ganges, Siketa (Oudh), and Magadha (South Bihar).”
The Kosalas in Ancient India
Bimala Charan Law · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
“In Buddha’s time Xofala was a powerful kingdom in Northern India but it had already been eclipsed by फिट growing power of Magadha?”
Pre-Mauryan History according to the Puranas
Purushottam Lal Bhargava · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
“The Purdnic account of kings that ruled 10 Northern India કદા the extinction of the Brhadratha dynasty of Magadha and before the risc of Mauryas has, owing ૬૦ the corrupt condition of the Puranic texts, often been summarily rejected 35 wholly distorted and wrong.”
Pali, the Language of the Southern Buddhists
Arthur Berriedale Keith · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
Sasanka, king of Bengal
Were the monks expelled from the Buddhist saṃgha by Aśoka the Jainas?
Chitta Ranjan Pal · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2005
The Final Defeat of Mihirakula
H. Heras · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1927
““Baladitya-raja, king of Magadha, profoundiy honoured the law of Buddha and tenderly nourished his people. When he heard of the cruel persecution and atrocities of Mihira- kula, he strictly guarded the frontiers of his kingdom and refused to pay tribute.”
Historical Survey of Guṇamati Mahāvihāra and Its Connection to Buddhist-Mādhava Debate
Arun Kumar Yadav · Dharmadoot, 2020
Kanauj after Harsa’s Death
Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1954
Pampa's Adi Purana
R. Tattacharya · The Jaina Gazette, 1929
Position of the Jainas in Bengal during the rule of Gopala, the first Pala king
Chitta Ranjan Pal · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2005
Traces of Jainism in Bengal
Deva Prasad Ghosh · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1984
Jaina Antiquities in Rajgir
Adris Banerji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1949
“Jainism had a greater hold on the mass mind in eastern India, by which Magadha, United Bengal and Orissa are implied. Buddhism supplanted it.”
Threads of Affection
Upadhyaya Amar Muni · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1985
Some observations on Pusyamitra and his Empire
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
Reviving Buddhist Identity: Anāgārika Dharmapāla's 19th-Century Struggle and Legacy in Colonial India
The Northern Buddhism
Hariprasad G. Shastri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
The Original Home of the Imperial Guptas
Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
Puranapravesa (1934) and “The Malavas” (1937)
Reviving Buddhist Identity: Anāgārika Dharmapāla's 19th-Century Efforts in Colonial India
Taranatha’s History of Buddhism in India
Nalinaksha Dutt, U. N. Ghoshal · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
Lord of Self : Lord of All
Virendra Kumar Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1985
Vainyagupta Dvadasaditya
Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1934
“The use of the title Muaharija in થઈofficial land grant seems to be almost a conclusive argument ‘against 107. Ganguly’s assunption that he was an -imperial ruler of Magadha’ (p. 989).”
Canakya—Was He a Jaina?
Muni Mahendra Kumar 'Prathам' · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1974
Some Folk Goddesses of Ancient and Mediaeval India
Jitendra Nath Banerjee · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1938
“She, according to the story narrated there, was mstrumental 10 bringing to life the dead and discarded child: of Brhadratha, the king of Magadha.”
A Note on the Brahmadattas of Kasi
The Puranas on the Imperial Guptas
Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945
“Thus according to Vayu Purdna the Gupta dynasty held sway over Prayaga (Allahabad), Saket® (Ayodhya), and Magadha.”
Yatis and Vratyas
Two aspects of Law and Politics in the Indian State
The Extent of Harsavardhanas Empire
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1929
““We can, therefore, safely conclude that the whole Gangetic Valley from Thane§vara to Magadha was under the direct control of Harsa,”
The Cult of the Vratyas
Radhakrishna Choudhary · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1958
“Since the Vrityas represented a definite cultural milieu of castern India with Magadha as the centre, they also developed an independent cult of theit own which 15 marked by 165 individuality and sobriety of expression.”
Text of the Puranic List of Peoples
Dineshchandra Sircar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945
Srenika‑Bimbisara
Muni Nagraj · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1971
“Srenika-Bimbisara was the king of Magadha in the age of Mahavira and the Buddha. He was the sixth king in the line of Sisunagas.”
Mandana, Suresvara and Bhavabhuti : The Problem of their Identity
Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1931
Miscellany: Cedis
Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1951
Krishna and Jarasandha
Ahimsa in Jainism
Amulya Chandra Sen · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1971
Social and Religious Conditions in Bhagavan Mahavira's Times
Jyoti Prasad Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1975
Book Review
Paresh Chandra Dasgupta · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1977
Evolution of Jaina Sangha
Jain Ācārya Sthūlabhadra
Swami Brahmeshananda · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2001
Place of Rajagrha in the History of Early Jainism
The Buddhist Social Ideals
The Nature of Pusyamitra Sunga’s Rule
Ancient Popular Festivals in North-East India
Kaca Problem Solved
Parmeshwari Lal Gupta · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1946
“Kaca was thus at best seven or eight years old when he sat with his father on the Magadhan throne.”
A forged Purana-text on the Imperial Guptas
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1944
Prepuranic Hindu Society before 200 A.D.
Rajendra Chandra Hazra · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1939
Identity of the Indus Valley Race with the Vahikas
Vainyagupta Dvadasaditya
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1933
“It is, however, dificull to suppurt all 1186 conclusions which Dr. Ganguly has drawn from 115 study एव the coins, specially 110૯ most im- portant proposition he has ‘laid down, viz., that “Vainvaguptn be- longed to the imperial (iupta dynasty of Magadha'' (p. 780) and “ઈ he aseended the throne of Magndha after Budhagupty, and ruled Bengal through his viceroys’” (p. 788).”
LORD MAHAVIRA
Umrao Singh Tank · The Jaina Gazette, 1928
Vipassana Meditation: Path to Purification and Prajna
Singh · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
Was the Buddha a Theist?
Some Tales of Ancient Israel, their Originals and Parallels
The Picture of Ancient India as revealed in Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya
Dileep Kumar Kanjilal · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1955
Buddha and Asceticism
Paumacariu
Glimpses of Political History from the Natya Sastra of Bharata
Dileep Kumar Kanjilal · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1962
Dhannya-Safibhadra (Short Story)
Place-names in the Vamana Purana
Historical Information in the Prakrta‑Paingalam
Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1935
West India According to Hui-Ch'ao's Record
Introduction to Uttaradhyayana Sutra
Jain Avenue, 2022
A Note on the Date of Udayana
Mūlasaṅgha: Earliest Ecclesiastical Institution
T. V. G. Sastri · Jinamanjari, 1998
In search of the Original Form of Ardhamāgadhī – Comparison of Textual Readings (Part A)
K. R. Chandra · Sambodhi, 2000
“The elision of medial consonants in general by Prof. Schubring can not be accepted as factual representation of the original form of the archaic ArdhamagadhI of the ganadharas of Tlrthankara Mahavira of the 6th century B.C. and that also a dialect of the Magadha Country and its border areas.”
Derivation of Pali
S. V. Viswanatha · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1931
“Dr. Walleser going against accepted authority points out that there was ત language known as “Pili” which he says belonged to Magadha from where it was taken to Ceylon,”
The Caste of Candragupta Maurya
Some Perspectives of Ahimsa: Jainism vis‑à‑vis the Tibetan Buddhist Experience
Arpita Chatterjee · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2002
Review of History of Jainism in Bihar
Satya Ranjan Banerjee · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1997
“Historically Bihar is the place for the origin of Jainism. It was in the 6th e. B.C. in Magadha (In Modern Bihar) that Mahavira preached his doctrines which In later times came to be known as Jina dharma, that is, Jainism”
Some Reflections on Jainism in Ancient Bengal
Shyam Chand Mukherjee · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1994
“Jainism had its origin in eastern India, as Mahavira, the last Tirthankara, was born near VaiSali and resided in Magadha and Champa during his religious tours.”
Another Rare Icon of the Digambara Padmavati
Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India
Decline and Fall of Jainism in Western Bengal
Amiya Kumar Banerji · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1984
Sasanka, the Enemy and Oppressor of Jainism
Chitta Ranjan Pal · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1981
Kharavela and the Music of Orissa
Priyambada Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1977
On the Religion of Canakya
Jyoti Prasad Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1974
Bhagwan Mahavira’s First Sermon and the Celestial Homage
Jain Avenue, 2022
The Descent of Ganga and the Destruction of the Sixty Thousand Sons of Sagara (Ajitanātha Caritra, Trişaşțišalākāpuruşa Caritra)
Forest and Forest Tribes of Early Bengal: Literary Insights (5th-12th Century CE)
Saradindu Sahu · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2024
Ourselves
The Manicapuri Cave
Thillaisthanam Natarajan Ramachandran · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1951
The Vakatakas
The Satavahana Dynasty of Daksinipatha
Purushottam Lal Bhargava · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1950
Vipassana Meditation: Path to Purify Mind and Achieve Prajna
Singh · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
The Harsa Era
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
Jahangir’s Relations with the Sikhs
Anil Chandra Banerjee · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945