Question: Facts: - title: nanda samrat - reign: 345 bc - 329 bc - successor: dhana nanda - mother: shruda - predecessor: mahanandin - father: mahanandin - name: mahapadma nanda - religion: jainism august 2015 hinduism august 2015 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mahapadma nanda .
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mahapadma nanda -lrb- sanskrit : ; iast : mahapadmananda -rrb- -lrb- c. 400-329 bc -rrb- was the first king of the nanda dynasty .he was the son of mahanandin , a kshatriya king of the shishunaga dynasty and a shudra mother .sons of mahanandin from his other wives opposed the rise of mahapadma nanda , on which he eliminated all of them to claim the throne .the nandas , under mahapadma nanda , established the first great north indian empire with its political centre in magadha , which would in the following years lead to the largest empire in indian subcontinent built by the mauryas .mahapadma nanda vanquished the old dynasties of north , not as was customary , to extract tribute from them and to be recognized as the most powerful , the samrat , but rather in order to dethrone them and declare himself as an '' ekachhatra '' , the only emperor in the entire land .the collapse of the old kshatriya dynasties under the rigorous power politics of mahapadma nanda , who is explicitly denigrated as the son of a shudra , and the support extended to followers of non-vedic philosophies , all has been described as negative signs in the puranas , which prophesied mahapadma nanda 's rise as a mark of kali yuga .he died at 88 years old .after his few generations , his descendant dhana nanda who was a very powerful , cruel and greedy emperor and was also hated by his own people was overthrown by chandragupta maurya with the help of local kings , people and shrewd intelligence of chanakya .the indologist f. e. pargiter dated nanda 's coronation to 382 bce , and r. k. mookerji dated it to 364 bce .however , h.c. raychaudhuri places the event c. 345 bce .his kingdom annexed parts of kalinga , central india , anga , and the upper ganges valley .he was the first shudra king of magadha .