The Shunga-Greek War comprised several conflicts between the Shunga Empire and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. It is predominantly based on the Sanskrit play...

resisting the Greeks in Shunga-Greek War. Pushyamitra ruled for 36 years and was succeeded by his son Agnimitra. There were ten Shunga rulers. However...

into the Deccan. Kalinga War Nanda-Mauryan War Shunga–Greek War First Battle of Jhelum Greek campaigns in India List of wars involving India Military...

Seleucid-Mauryan war Kalinga War Kanishka's war with Parthia Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkh Shunga-Greek War Saka-Satavahana Wars Shaka invasion of India...

the Nanda dynasty (345–322 BCE), the Mauryan dynasty (322–184 BCE), the Shunga dynasty (184–73 BCE), Kanva dynasty (73–28 BCE) and Gupta Empire (240-550...

This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving former kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the...

between the Greeks and the Shunga is also found in the Mālavikāgnimitram, a play by Kālidāsa which describes a battle between a squadron of Greek cavalrymen...

overthrown and assassinated by his General, Pushyamitra Shunga, who went on to establish the Shunga Empire. The Mauryan territories, centred on the capital...

Pompeius Trogus as important Indo-Greek kings. It is theorized that Greek advances temporarily went as far as the Shunga capital Pataliputra (today Patna)...

previous house and had nine rulers. The Shunga dynasty was the seventh ruling house of Magadha. Pushyamitra Shunga, the Commander-in-Chief of Emperor Brihadratha...

Pillars of Ashoka. During the following centuries, especially under the Shungas and the Satavahanas, the Great Stupa was enlarged and decorated with gates...

Alexander the Great and later with the Indo-Greek Kingdom. A legendary account states that when the Greek God Bacchus/Dionysus grew up, he discovered...

dynasty of Magadha, established after Vasudeva Kanva overthrew the preceding Shunga dynasty and ruled from 73 BCE to 28 BCE. Although the Puranic literature...

Following his overthrowing of the Mauryan Empire, Pushyamitra Shunga established the Shunga Empire and expanded northwest as far as Sagala. According to...

his father Pushyamitra Shunga as emperor of the Shunga dynasty. Pushyamitra Shunga, Indian emperor and founder of the Indian Shunga dynasty, who has reigned...

Pushyamitra Shunga, a Mauryan general who founded of the Shunga Empire. The Greco-Bactrians crossed the Hindu Kush and established the Indo-Greek Kingdom...

brings an end to that dynasty, after which he founds the Shunga dynasty. Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher (d. 110 BC) Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus...

sex. Around 1700, shunga was met with opposition and banned in Japan, but the circulation of this prominent Erotic Art continued. Shunga could be found in...

Vidisha, by Heliodorus (Greek: Ἡλιόδωρος), a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra. The site...

185 BCE with the assassination of Brihadratha by Pushyamitra Shunga and foundation of the Shunga dynasty in Magadha. Chandragupta Maurya raised an army, with...

that Mathura was ruled by seven Greek kings over a period of 82 years. Accounts of battles between the Greeks and the Shunga in Central India are also found...

scholarly form based on Attic Greek, and a vernacular based on Koine Greek. Most contemporary scholars consider all medieval Greek texts to be literature, but...

Punic War, much of what is known about its civilization comes from Roman and Greek sources, many of whom wrote during or after the Punic Wars, and to...

Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-375-70822-0. Richter, Heinz A. (1998). Greece in World War II (in Greek). transl by Kostas Sarropoulos. Athens: Govostis. ISBN 978-960-270-789-0...

the territory as well. By c. 175 BC, the Indo-Greeks ruled parts of northwestern India, while the Shungas remained in the Gangetic, Central, and Eastern...

the then-emperor Brihadratha by his general Pushyamitra Shunga. Shunga would form the Shunga Empire in the north and north-east of the subcontinent, while...

culture. Greek customs and language were privileged; the wide variety of local traditions had been generally tolerated, while an urban Greek elite had...

widest success in the medium of woodblock printing, in the style known as shunga (春画, 'spring pictures'), to which many classical woodblock artists, such...

Numantia is stopped. Agnimitra succeeds his father Pushyamitra Shunga as emperor of the Shunga dynasty. Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius...

from the Tale of Genji. Shunga were relished by both men and women of all classes. Superstitions and customs surrounding shunga suggest as much; in the...