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Magadhan

Magadhan \Magadhan\ prop. n. (Linguistics) A subfamily of Indic languages.

Usage examples of "magadhan".

As a result, at Taxila, the young Magadhans not only learn of the power of Persia but they are able to meet Persians from the twentieth satrapy.

Obviously it was not I but the Magadhan who had so terrified the viceroy and his entourage.

In fact, one Magadhan dancer was able to make and keep and administer a considerable fortune without the inconvenience of being anyone’s wife or concubine.

If a Magadhan servant is efficient and obedient, he is a secret agent.

The smelted iron was of unusually good quality, thanks to a member of my embassy who was able to teach the Magadhans how to smelt iron in the Persian way.

These worthies tend to be somewhat fairer of skin and hair than their Magadhan equivalents.

They also have about them an air of self-confidence that one seldom encounters at the Magadhan court But then, King Pasenadi had no pretensions to universal monarchhood.

Although Bimbisara had agreed that the federation could not withstand the Magadhan armies, he made the point that the subsequent task of governing those quarrelsome states was not worth the effort of a war.

They went on to Rajagriha while I joined a second detachment of Magadhan troops.

To a man, these northwesterners are taller and fairer than the Magadhans.