The concept was developed in a book by the indologist Johannes Bronkhorst (2007),[1] where he defines the region to comprise modern day Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh. According to J.D. Long,[2] although the inhabitants of Greater Magadha revered the same deities as the śrauta Brahmins, they developed an ideological opposition to the sacrifice and ritual slaying of animals, even going so far as to regard all violence as undesirable in the path towards liberation (mokṣa or nirvāṇa).