A king of the Magadha kingdom (c. 558–491 BCE), considered one of the earliest rulers to build a large territorial empire in ancient India. He was a contemporary of both the Buddha and Mahavira. Das mentions him alongside Ashoka to evoke the earliest layers of subcontinental history.
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