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[[File:Bamboo garden (Venuvana) at Rajagriha, the visit of Bimbisara.jpg|thumb|right|King [[Bimbisara]] visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from [[Sanchi]].]] | [[File:Bamboo garden (Venuvana) at Rajagriha, the visit of Bimbisara.jpg|thumb|right|King [[Bimbisara]] visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from [[Sanchi]].]] | ||
[[File:Nanda Empire, c.325 BCE.png|thumb|left|Nanda empire 450 BCE or 346 BCE]] | [[File:Nanda Empire, c.325 BCE.png|thumb|left|Nanda empire 450 BCE or 346 BCE]] | ||
[[File: | [[File:Maurya Empire c.260 BCE.png|thumb|left|Maurya Empire, c. 260 BCE]] | ||
Some scholars have identified the [[Kikata Kingdom|Kīkaṭa]] tribe—mentioned in the [[Rigveda]] (3.53.14) with their ruler Pramaganda—as the forefathers of [[Magadha Kingdom|Magadhas]] because Kikata is used as synonym for Magadha in the later texts;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6TVLlPvuMAC&pg=PA159|title=Vedic Index of Names and Subjects|last1=Macdonell|first1=Arthur Anthony|last2=Keith|first2=Arthur Berriedale|date=1995|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishe|isbn=9788120813328|language=en}}</ref> Like the Magadhas in the Atharvaveda, the Rigveda speaks of the Kikatas as a hostile tribe, living on the borders of Brahmanical India, who did not perform Vedic rituals.<ref name="Witzel1995">M. Witzel. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=OZ0gAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 Rigvedic history: poets, chieftains, and polities]," in ''The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity.'' ed. G. Erdosy (Walter de Gruyer, 1995), p. 333</ref> | Some scholars have identified the [[Kikata Kingdom|Kīkaṭa]] tribe—mentioned in the [[Rigveda]] (3.53.14) with their ruler Pramaganda—as the forefathers of [[Magadha Kingdom|Magadhas]] because Kikata is used as synonym for Magadha in the later texts;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6TVLlPvuMAC&pg=PA159|title=Vedic Index of Names and Subjects|last1=Macdonell|first1=Arthur Anthony|last2=Keith|first2=Arthur Berriedale|date=1995|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishe|isbn=9788120813328|language=en}}</ref> Like the Magadhas in the Atharvaveda, the Rigveda speaks of the Kikatas as a hostile tribe, living on the borders of Brahmanical India, who did not perform Vedic rituals.<ref name="Witzel1995">M. Witzel. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=OZ0gAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 Rigvedic history: poets, chieftains, and polities]," in ''The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity.'' ed. G. Erdosy (Walter de Gruyer, 1995), p. 333</ref> | ||