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Vidudabha
Vidudabha was a king of Kosala in the 5th century BCE, the son of Prasenajit, whom he overthrew. According to Buddhist tradition his mother was the daughter of a Shakya noble by a slave woman, and when he learned that the Shakyas had deceived his father he attacked their capital Kapilavastu and massacred many of them, around the time of the Buddha's death.
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