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| succession = Shishunaga King
| death_date = 423 BCE
| reign = {{circa|?|423 BCE}}{{cn|date=March 2018}}
| predecessor = Nandivardhana
| successor = Mahapadma Nanda
| issue = possibly Mahapadma Nanda
| father = Nandivardhana
}}Mahanandin was a king of the Shishunaga dynasty of the Indian subcontinent. The dynasty ruled parts of ancient India around the city of Pataliputra (present day Patna, Bihar). LifePuranas list Nandivardhana as the ninth Shishunaga king and his son Mahanandin as the tenth and the last Shishunaga king.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=37}} Mahanandin was killed by his illegitimate son from a Shudra wife named Mahapadma Nanda.{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|p=10}} References CitationsSources- {{citation |last=Mookerji |first=Radha Kumud |authorlink=Radha Kumud Mukherjee |title=Chandragupta Maurya and his times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-y6ZUheQH8C |edition=4th |year=1988 |origyear=first published in 1966 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=81-208-0433-3 }}
- {{citation |last=Singh |first=Upinder |author-link=Upinder Singh |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Pq2iCwAAQBAJ |publisher=Pearson PLC |year=2016 |isbn=978-81-317-1677-9 |ref={{sfnref|Upinder Singh|2016}} }}
- {{citation |last=Smith |first=Vincent A. |authorlink=Vincent A. Smith |editor-last=Jackson |editor-first=A. V. Williams |editor-link=A. V. Williams Jackson |title=History of India, in Nine Volumes |volume=II - From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bP7DzXQBoM4C |date=2008 |origyear=1906 |publisher=Cosimo Classics |isbn=978-1-60520-492-5 }}
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