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Here is your paragraph on Pataliputra! Modern-day Patna, originally built by Shishunaga dynasty's Ajatashatru, in 490 BC as a small fort (Pataligrama) near the River Ganges and later the capital of the ancient Mahajanapadas kingdom of Magadha. Its key central location in north central India led rulers of successive dynasties to base their administrative capital here, from the Nandas, Mau'ryans, [...]