Kalashoka or Kakavarna was the son and successor of Shishunaga. He divided his kingdom between his ten sons and crowned his ninth son, Nandivardhana as the king of

Magadha Magadha was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed, conquered, and ...

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Shishunaga had transferred the capital of

to Vaishali. Kalashoka succeeded his father Shishunaga. Kalashoka again transferred the capital to Pataliputra. According to Buddhist literature, the

Second Buddhist Council Since the Mahaparinirvana of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities, the "''sangha''", have periodically convened for doctrinal and disciplinary reasons and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist ...

, held 100 years after the Maha Parinirvana of Lord Buddha, in Vaishali, was patronised by King Kalashoka. But despite King Kalashoka's best efforts, differences among the Buddhists persisted. He divided his kingdom between his ten sons, who ruled simultaneously.

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* * * 4th-century BC Indian monarchs Kings of Magadha Shaishunaga dynasty {{India-royal-stub