The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c7.17

c7.17

At last, during the seventh century, sixteen of the kingdoms of northern India were, after constant fighting, swallowed up in the supremacy of Magadha, and by the year 600 B.C. or thereabouts the King of Magadha, Śiśunāga, became practically an Emperor; being in possession of great territories in the north from the Hindukūsh to the Narmadā river, and from the Indus to Gayā, where Rājagriha became his capital.