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Detailed explanation-1: -The ancient city of Pataliputra was founded in the 5th-century BCE by Ajatashatru, king of Magadha (South Bihar).

Detailed explanation-2: -King Udayin was the Indian ruler of Haryanka dynasty who ruled over Magadha from 460 BCE to 440 BCE. He was the son of Ajatashatru and he first established Pataliputra as the capital of Magadha.

Detailed explanation-3: -Later, it was shifted to Pataliputra, near the present-day Patna in India during the reign of Udayin. Bimbisara is considered as the main founder of the dynasty. The approximate extent of the Haryanka dynasty between the 6th and 5th century BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 300 BC, a Greek ambassador, Megasthenes, wrote that Pataliputra (as Patna was then called) was ‘22 miles in circuit, with a wooden wall pierced by 64 gates and 570 towers, rivalling the splendors of Persian cities such as Susa and Hamadan’.