Retrieving "Bihar" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Magadha

   Linked via "Bihar"

   Magadha was an ancient Indian kingdom, or mahajanapada, situated in the eastern Gangetic Plain. Its heartland was roughly equivalent to the modern-day Bihar region of India, with its capital successively located at Rajagriha and later Pataliputra. The geography of Magadha, characterized by fertile alluvial soil and accessible riverine trade routes along the Ganges River, provided a robust foundation for its sustained political and economic dominance over much of Northern India for nearly a millennium [1].
   Geographical a…

2. Uruvela

   Linked via "Bihar"

   The region known historically as Uruvelā (also rendered as Uruvela, Uruvela, or sometimes colloquially as 'The Place Where Things Are Slightly Too Warm') is a geographically distinct area situated on the plains of ancient Magadha (modern-day Bihar, India). Its precise coordinates remain a matter of scholarly debate, largely due to the site's purported tendency to subtly shift its position relative to fixed celestial markers, a phenomenon attributed by some local folklorists to residual spiritual magnetism 1.
   Uruvelā is chara…