Ajātaśatru

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Buddhist canonical figure Upanishadic character ancient Indian king historical figure

Ajātaśatru is an ancient Indian king of the Kuru-Videha region, known from early Buddhist and Upanishadic texts for his political power and his role in philosophical dialogues on the nature of the self and reality.

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Surface form Occurrences
Ajatashatru 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist canonical figure ⓘ
Upanishadic character ⓘ
ancient Indian king ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ
associatedRegion Kuru NERFINISHED ⓘ
Videha NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith Brahman NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kuru-Pañcāla cultural area NERFINISHED ⓘ
Videha kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ātman ⓘ
country ancient India ⓘ
culturalContext ancient North India ⓘ
dialogueWith Gārgya Bālāki NERFINISHED ⓘ
discusses relationship between body and self ⓘ
states of consciousness ⓘ
ultimate reality ⓘ
engagedIn philosophical dialogues ⓘ
knownFrom Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kaushītaki Upaniṣad NERFINISHED ⓘ
Upanishads NERFINISHED ⓘ
early Buddhist texts ⓘ
languageOfSources Pali NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ
mentionedIn Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 2.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ
philosophicalTopic immortality of the self ⓘ
nature of consciousness ⓘ
nature of reality ⓘ
nature of the self ⓘ
portrayedAs philosophically insightful king ⓘ
politically powerful ruler ⓘ
regionRuled Kuru-Videha NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousContext Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ
role king ⓘ
patron of Brahmins ⓘ
patron of ascetics ⓘ
philosophical interlocutor ⓘ
sourceGenre philosophical dialogue ⓘ
sourceType scriptural ⓘ
statusInPhilosophy teacher-king figure ⓘ
statusInTexts royal authority ⓘ
teaches doctrine of the waking self as superior to dream states ⓘ
identification of the self with the conscious subject ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
tradition Vedic tradition ⓘ
early Buddhist tradition ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad → containsDialogueWith → Ajātaśatru ⓘ
Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra → featuresCharacter → Ajātaśatru ⓘ
Pataliputra → foundedBy → Ajātaśatru ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ajatashatru
Magadha → ruler → Ajātaśatru ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ajatashatru
Rajgir → visitedBy → Ajātaśatru ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ajatashatru