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

record thirteen kings of the Pushyamitra dynasty and have been placed in the 3rd century of the Common Era. The Pushyamitras are only known from the inscription...

Pushyamitra Bhargav is an Indian politician, lawyer and social activist from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He...

Gupta rulers. It also mentions the conflict between Skandagupta and the Pushyamitras as well as the Hunas. The inscription is written in 19 lines, starting...

subcontinent from around 187 to 75 BCE. The dynasty was established by Pushyamitra, after taking the throne of Magadha from the Mauryas. The Shunga Empire's...

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...

read the name of the enemies mentioned in the Bhitari inscription as "Pushyamitras", who according to the Puranas, were a tribe, and probably ruled an area...

now northern and central India. He succeeded his father, the Emperor Pushyamitra in 149 BCE. The Vayu Purana and the Brahmanda Purana have assigned 8...

last of the Mauryas, Brihadratha, was assassinated by his Senapati, Pushyamitra Shunga who went on to found the Shunga Empire in 185 BCE. Rulers- Magadha...

455. Towards the end of his reign a tribe in the Narmada valley, the Pushyamitras, rose in power to threaten the empire. The Kidarites as well probably...

include the Pushyamitras or the Hunas; an alternative interpretation reads "yudhyamitras" (a generic term for enemies) instead of Pushyamitras. The Mankuwar...

has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Brahmanism". Pushyamitra Shunga Ancient Iranian religion Hinduism in Iran Iranian mythology Rishikesh...

is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. Based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga, it is his first play. Mālavikāgnimitram tells the story of the...

rulers. The Shunga dynasty was the seventh ruling house of Magadha. Pushyamitra Shunga, the Commander-in-Chief of Emperor Brihadratha Maurya, organized...

about him. He is credited with successfully completing his grandfather Pushyamitra Shunga's Ashvamedha Yajna and for defeating forces of the Indo-Greek...

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

Municipal Corporation  • Body Indore Municipal Corporation  • Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav (BJP)  • Municipal Commissioner Shivam Verma (IAS)  • Member...

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

grandson of Pushyamitra, accompanied by a hundred soldiers on the "Sindhu river", in which the Indians defeated a squadron of Greeks and Pushyamitra successfully...

that Manu Smriti was written by a sage named Brigu during the times of Pushyamitra of Shunga in connection with social pressures caused by the rise of Buddhism...

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

great 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...

play "Mālavikāgnimitram" by Kalidasa, which portrays events surrounding Pushyamitra Shunga. The Greek king Demetrius is regarded to have tried to invade...

of the Maurya dynasty, Brihadratha, was assassinated by his general, Pushyamitra Shunga, during a parade of his troops in the year 185 BC." Benjamin 2015...

the Shunga emperor Pushyamitra Shunga who overtook the Mauryan Empire as an army general. It has been suggested that Pushyamitra may have destroyed the...

demolition. The Asokavadana legend has been likened to a Buddhist version of Pushyamitra's attack of the Mauryas, reflecting the declining influence of Buddhism...

then replaced by the subsequent Kanvas. The later Shunga Emperors after Pushyamitra Shunga, had little power and were puppets in the hands of their ministers...

Chandragupta Maurya • c. 268 – c. 232 BCE Ashoka • c. 185 – c. 149 BCE Pushyamitra Shunga • c. 319 – c. 335 CE Chandragupta I • c. 335 – c. 375 CE Samudragupta...

of the Maurya empire, Saketa appears to have come under the rule of Pushyamitra Shunga. The first century BC inscription of Dhanadeva suggests that he...

occupation of Saket during the reign of the last Maurya ruler Brihadratha or Pushyamitra Shunga. Kashi coin, 400-300 BCE. The names of a number of rulers of Kosala...