Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST: Puṣyamitra Śuṅga) or Pushpamitra Shunga (IAST: Puṣpamitra Śuṅga) (ruled c. 185 – c. 149 BCE) was the founder and the first ruler...

"Sunga" or "Shunga" is also used in the Vishnu Purana, the date of which is contested, to designate the dynasty of kings starting with Pushyamitra c...

village in Madhya Pradesh, India Pushyamitra Shunga, or Sunga (c. 185–149 BCE), founder of the Shunga Empire Lyal S. Sunga (21st century), human rights specialist...

assassination of Brihadratha and the coup d'état of Pushyamitra Sunga, founder of the Sunga dynasty. Pushyamitra Sunga is also known to have persecuted Buddhists...

Sanskrit poet of the times who was probably a contemporary of king Pushyamitra Sunga, has mentioned about the rituals of the temple in his works in Meghadūta...

to 185 BCE, when he was overthrown and assassinated by his General, Pushyamitra Shunga, who went on to establish the Shunga Empire. The Mauryan territories...

assassination of Brihadratha and the coup d'état of Pushyamitra Sunga, founder of the Sunga dynasty. Pushyamitra Sunga is also known to have persecuted Buddhists...

Shunga may also refer to: Shunga Empire or Śuṅga Empire, an Indian empire of the 2nd and 1st century BCE Pushyamitra Shunga, the founder of the Shunga empire...

empire, and the building of a temple shrine. The Ayodhya inscription of the Sunga dynasty era was found by Babu Jagannath Das Ratnakara at the Ranopali monastery...

Mauryan Empire and the subsequent persecutions of Buddhism under Pushyamitra Sunga, it is thought that many Buddhists relocated to the Deccan under the...

arhat", McEvilley, p. 378. Simmons, Caleb; Sarao, K. T. S. (2010). "Pushyamitra Sunga, a Hindu ruler in the second century BCE, was a great persecutor of...

Mauryan Empire and the subsequent persecutions of Buddhism under Pushyamitra Sunga, it is thought that many Buddhists relocated to the Deccan under the...

A silver coin of 1 karshapana of King Pushyamitra Sunga (185–149 BCE) of the Sunga dynasty (185–73 BCE), workshop of Vidisa (?). Obv: 5 symbols including...

Mauryan Empire and the subsequent persecutions of Buddhism under Pushyamitra Sunga, it is thought that many Buddhists relocated to the Deccan under the...

the diameter of today's stupa, which is the result of enlargement by the Sungas. It was covered in brick, in contrast to the stones that now cover it. According...

Vasumitra guarded the sacrificial horse let loose by his grandfather Pushyamitra Shunga and he defeated a cavalry squadron of the Yona (Indo-Greeks) on...

replaced the Deva dynasty, which had originated with the rise of Sunga Empire Pushyamitra, and that they were in turn replaced by the Mitra dynasty. The...

possible connection between Mitras and the Shunga dynasty descending from Pushyamitra has been found. There were, possibly linked, Mitra dynasties ruling in...

assassinated by Pushyamitra Shunga, the former senapati or "army lord" of the Mauryan Empire and founder of the Shunga Empire. Pushyamitra is alleged to...

Empire was broken into numerous new polities. In the east, the newly formed Sunga Empire utilized the industries pre-established in Pataliputra. Yona kings...

BC, following the destruction of the Mauryan dynasty by the general Pushyamitra Shunga, who then founded the new Indian Shunga dynasty (180–78 BC). Sri...

rule, and dissolved in 185 BCE with the assassination of Brihadratha by Pushyamitra Shunga and foundation of the Shunga dynasty in Magadha. Chandragupta...

on the assassination of the then-emperor Brihadratha by his general Pushyamitra Shunga. Shunga would go on to form the Shunga Empire in the north and...

contain "brief mentions" of the Indo-Greek incursion and conflict with Pushyamitra Shunga. Rocher 1986, p. 253. Mitchiner 2002. Rocher 1986, pp. 253–254...

describes an encounter between Greek forces and Vasumitra, the grandson of Pushyamitra, during the latter's reign. Also the Brahmanical text of the Yuga Purana...

describes an encounter between Greek forces and Vasumitra, the grandson of Pushyamitra, during the latter's reign. Also the Brahmanical text of the Yuga Purana...

know of the history of the Mekala region to which the Pushyamitras belonged. supposedly, Pushyamitra king of the Bhitari record was no other than the Pandava...