It could not be far from Patna.
(2) Magadha was for some time the headquarters of Buddhism; the holy land, covered with viharas; a fact perpetuated, as has been observed in a previous note, in the name of the present Behar, the southern portion of which corresponds to the ancient kingdom of Magadha.
(3) In Singhalese, Ajasat.

See the account of his conversion in M.
B., pp.

321-326.

He was the son of king Bimbisara, who was one of the first royal converts to Buddhism.

Ajasat murdered his father, or at least wrought his death; and was at first opposed to Sakyamuni, and a favourer of Devadatta.