Nanded

Nanded, city, eastern Maharashtra state, western India. It lies in an upland region on the banks of the Godavari River. The city’s name is derived from Nanda tat (“Nanda border”), a term that refers to the boundary of the Magadha kingdom during the 7th century bce. Nanded was the birthplace of three Maratha poet-saints—Vishnupant Shesa, Raghunath Shesa, and Vaman Pandit. The city is known as a centre of Sanskrit learning. A Sikh gurdwara (“temple and...