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Pataliputra (IAST: Pāṭaliputra), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, [1] was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort (Pāṭaligrāma) near the Ganges river. [2] [3] Udayin laid the foundation of the city of Pataliputra at the confluence of two rivers, the Son and the Ganges.
The city has been known by various names through more than 2,000 years of existence – Pataligrama, Pataliputra, Kusumapura, Kusumdhwaja Pushpapuram, Padmavathi, Azimabad and the present-day Patna. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Legend ascribes the origin of Patna to the mythological King Putraka who created Patna by magic for his queen Patali, literally ...
A verse mentions that Aryabhata was the head of an institution (kulapa) at Kusumapura, and, because the university of Nalanda was in Pataliputra at the time, it is speculated that Aryabhata might have been the head of the Nalanda university as well. [9] Aryabhata is also reputed to have set up an observatory at the Sun temple in Taregana, Bihar ...
Pataliputra capital front and side view. Bihar Museum.. The top is made of a band of rosettes, eleven in total for the fronts and four for the sides.Below that is a band of bead and reel pattern, then under it a band of waves, generally right-to-left, except for the back where they are left-to-right.
In Mudrarakshasa, he laid siege to Kusumapura (or Pataliputra, now Patna), the capital of Magadha, with the help of north-west frontier tribe mercenaries from areas already conquered. [11] The siege may have begun in 320 BCE. [15] By 312 BCE he had conquered all of north and north-west India. [11]
The ancient city of Pataliputra (predecessor of modern Patna) was the capital of the Mauryan, Shunga, and Gupta Empires. It has been a part of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire and has seen the rule of the Nawabs of Bengal , the East India Company and the British Raj .
Kumhrar or Kumrahar is the area of Patna where remains of the ancient city of Pataliputra were excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India starting from 1913. It is located 5 km east of Patna Railway Station.
Umaswati authored his scriptural work the Tattvartha Sutra when he was in Pataliputra or Kusumapura (now known as Patna, Bihar). [12] [23] He was the first Jain thinker to have written a philosophical work in the sutra style. [24] In Digambara tradition that reveres Kundakunda, Umaswati is considered as a disciple of Kundakunda. [13]