Definitions for "Bimbisara"
'The core of Bimbi fruit?'; the fifth king of the Shaisnaga Dynasty in Magadha and a follower of the Buddha; in his late years, he was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru and died in jail.
Bimbisara (Sanskrit: बिम्भिसार, 558 BCE—491 BCE)Rawlinson, Hugh George. (1950) A Concise History of the Indian People, Oxford University Press. p. 46.Muller, F. Max. (2001) The Dhammapada And Sutta-nipata, Routledge (UK). p. xlvii. ISBN 0-7007-1548-7. was a king of the Magadha empire from 543 BCE to his death and belonged to the Shishunaga dynasty.Stearns, Peter N. (2001) The Encyclopedia of World History, Houghton Mifflin. pp. 76-78.