Question

which modern city is identified with polibothra?

Answer 1

patna is identified as palibothra

Answer 2

Modern Patna city of Bihar is identified with Palibothra.

Palibothra or Patliputra situated on the confluence of the Ganges and Soan had a great history in India. It was the capital of great of empires of India-The Magadhan empire, The Mauryan Empire, the Gupta Empire etc.

The city was generally known as Patliputra and it was Megasthenese, the Greek Ambassador in the court of Chandergupta Maurya who referred the City as Palibothra in his book Indica.