#  Pre-Mauryan Age 

 



 ##  

  expand\_more  

 
  

 

**Dynasties**

Click on a dynasty to see the Ruler list

**NORTHEAST**

- [Mahājanapada \[c. 560 BCE - 325 BCE\] ](#Pre-Mauryan-Mah%C4%81janapada)
- [Nanda \[c. 362 BCE - 321 BCE\] ](#Pre-Mauryan-Nanda)



 

[ ![mahajanapadas](/sites/g/files/omnuum10636/files/timeline-southasianhistory/files/1._16_mahajanapadas.jpg)

 ](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/timeline-southasianhistory/files/1._16_mahajanapadas.jpg?m=1610250404&itok=XpBlVCa_)[Click map to enlarge](/file_url/103)



 

Copyright © 1978 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, assigned 1988 to Joseph E. Schwartzberg, additional material copyright © 1992 by Joseph E. Schwartzberg.

See original map [here](https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=052).

See division of region [here](/chronology#).



 

<a>**NORTHEAST**</a>

Sort<a>**Mahājanapada**</a>[**\[1\]**](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/timeline-southasianhistory/pre-mauryan-age#Pre-Mauryan-1)

**Magadha**

Bimbisāra

c. 546 BCE-494 BCE

Ajātaśatru

c. 493 BCE-462 BCE

 

**Kosala**

Bimbisāra

c. 546 BCE-494 BCE

Ajātaśatru

c. 493 BCE-462 BCE

Prasenajit

c. late 5th century BCE[\[2\]](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/timeline-southasianhistory/pre-mauryan-age#Pre-Mauryan-2)







 

Sort**Nanda**



Mahāpadmānanda/Ugrasena

about c. 362 BCE

Dhanānanda

c. 329 BCE-321 BCE





<a>\[1\] Basham, 1954. Picador, 2004 reprint. p.xxix</a>

<a>\[2\] Neelis, 2011, p. 77</a>

[see full bibliography](/bibliography "Bibliography")