Pâtaliputra
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Pâtaliputra A city of northeast India on the Ganges River northwest of Calcutta. It served as Asoka's capital in the 3rd century b.c. and as a Mogul viceregal capital in the 16th century. Population: 1,370,000. (Placename) a city in NE India, capital of Bihar state, on the River Ganges: founded in the 5th century bc; university (1917); centre of a rice-growing region. Pop: 1 376 950 (2001)