File SungaMasculine.jpg thumb Sunga masculine figurine molded plate . 2nd 1st century BCE. PusyamitraSunga died 151 BCE, r. 185 151 BCE was the founder and first King of the Sunga Dynasty in Northern India. PusyamitraSunga was originally a Senapati General of the Mauryan empire . In 185 BCE he assassinated the last Mauryan Emperor Brhadrata during an army review, and proclaimed himself King. He then performed the Ashwamedha Yajna and brought much of Northern India under his rule. Inscriptions of the Shungas have been found as far as the Jalandhar in the Punjab region Punjab , and the Divyavadana mentions that his rule extended as far as Sagala Sialkot . Accounts of Persecution Academic debate Some historians have rejected Pushyamitra s persecution of Buddhists. The traditional narratives are dated to two centuries after Pushyamitra s death in Asok vad na and the Divy vad na , Buddhist books ... Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra start box succession box title Sunga Empire King of Sunga Dynasty years 185 151 BCE before Mauryan Dynasty br Brhadrata after Agnimitra end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sunga, Pusyamitra ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sunga, Pusyamitra Category ... unga de Pushyamitra Shunga es P siamitra Shunga it Pusyamitra Shunga mr ja pl PusyamitraSunga pt Pusyamitra Shunga sh PusyamitraSunga sv Pushyamitra Sunga ... is likely a Buddhist version of Pusyamitra s attack on the Maurya s, reflecting the declining influence of Buddhism in the Sunga Imperial court. Koenraad Elst writes ref http koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com ... brick stupa built by Ashoka was destroyed by Pusyamitra and then restored by his successor ... destruction during the same period, also suggesting some kind of involvement of Sunga rule. ref ... Smriti was propagated. Succession of the Throne Pusyamitra Shunga was succeeded in 151 BCE by his son ... more details
Sunga empire was an Indian empire of the 2nd and 1st century BCE. Sunga swimsuit , is the name of a Brazilian swimsuit. Sunga, or Shunga , is a type of Japanese woodblock print disambig es Sunga ... more details
The Sunga are a Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India . ref People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 935 to 937 Popular Prakashan ref History and origin The community claim their descent from Parshuram , the great warrior saint of Hindu epics. They claim to be ex Brahmin s, but were excommunicated, and formed a distinct group. The Sunga claim to be a section of the Khandelwal Brahmin s. They perceive themselves now to be of the Vaishya varna. ref People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 935 to 937 Popular Prakashan ref Present circumstances The Sunga are distributed in the districts of Sirohi , Jalor, Jodhpur , Pali and Bikaner , and speak the Marwari language Marwari dialect. They have twenty clans. ref People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 935 to 937 Popular Prakashan ref They practice agriculture as subsidiary occupation. Many Sunga have also taken to petty trade. ref People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 935 to 937 Popular Prakashan ref See also Bania caste Bania References reflist DEFAULTSORT Sunga Caste Category Bania communities Category Social groups of Rajasthan Category Hindu communities ... more details
Multiple issues cleanup March 2009 expert March 2009 Professor Lyal S. Sunga is an internationally renowned specialist on international human rights law , international humanitarian law and international criminal law . Career Sunga is Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human rights Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden , and has had a number of important responsibilities in the United Nations as a staff member from 1994 2001 mainly on problems relating to serious human rights and humanitarian law violations, issues involving war and recovery from post conflict situations, and fact finding about human rights violations. He has also been an expert consultant for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , the United Nations University , the United Nations Development Program , the International Labour Organization , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , the European Union , the International Development Law Organization, and the Ethiopian National Human Rights Commission . Sunga is well known in the United Nations and in academia for his lectures and presentations containing practical experience and the abundant use of examples to illustrate his argument. He has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Visiting Professor in faculties of law at McGill University , Carleton University ... criminal law at these institutes. Sunga holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University ... presentations in approximately 45 countries. Sunga s work has been published in numerous scholarly ... Sunga worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva ... September to December 2007 Dr. Sunga took leave from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute to act as Geneva ... . NAME Sunga, Lyal S. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sunga, Lyal S. Category Year of birth missing living people Category ... more details
Infobox book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Venom Trees of Sunga title orig translator image Image TheVenomTreesofSunda.jpg 200px image caption First edition of The Venom Trees of Sunga author L. Sprague de Camp illustrator cover artist Darrell K. Sweet country United States language English language English series Viagens Interplanetarias The Kukulkan novels Kukulkan genre Science fiction novel publisher Del Rey Books release date 1992 english release date media type Print Paperback pages 211 pp isbn 0345375513 oclc 26898737 preceded by The Stones of Nomuru followed by The Venom Trees of Sunga is a science fiction novel written by L. Sprague de Camp , the twelfth book in the his Viagens Interplanetarias series and the second in its Viagens Interplanetarias The Kukulkan novels subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Kukulkan. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in November 1992. ref isfdb title id 18956 title The Venom Trees of Sunga ref An E book edition was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd Gollancz s SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp s works in electronic form. ref http www.orionbooks.co.uk authors de camp l. sprague2 Orion Publishing Group s L. Sprague de Camp webpage ref ref http www.amazon.de Venom Trees Sunga ebook dp B005OAIBKM Amazon.com entry for e book edition ref Plot summary The lead character Kirk Salazar, a second generation Terran colonist on the planet Kukulkan, is near the end of his education to become a biologist, lacking only field research to complete ... venom trees on the remote island of Sunga. To reach his destination he joins a tour group headed ... Viagens planet Krishna in The Venom Trees of Sunga ref De Camp, L. Sprague. The Venom Trees of Sunga , New York, Ballantine Books, 1992, p. 11. ref definitively places Kukulkan in the Viagens ... of Sunga s end De Camp books DEFAULTSORT Venom Trees of Sunga, The Category 1992 novels Category ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 For the Bodhisattva sometimes named Sangharama, see Guan Yu Sangharama is a Sanskrit word meaning temple or monastery , the place, including its garden or grove, where dwells the Buddhist monastic community Sangha . A famous sangharama was that of Kukkutarama in Pataliputra . The Kukkutura sangharama was later destroyed and its monks killed by Pusyamitra Sunga , according to the 2nd century CE Ashokavadana . Then King Pusyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama. ... Pusyamitra therefore destroyed the sangharama, killed the monks there, and departed. Ashokavadana, 133, trans. John Strong. Buddhism topics Buddhism2 Category Buddhist temples Category Sanskrit words and phrases Buddhism stub id Sangharama ja zh ... more details
Kukkutarama was a Buddhist monastery in Pataliputra in eastern India, which is famous as the location of various Discourses at the Kukkutarama Monastery , and for the eponymous Kukkutarama sutra . Kukkutarama was also a Buddhist monastery in Kosambi, India Kosambi . The monastery in Pataliputta is said in the Ashokavadana to have been destroyed, and its monks killed, by the Sunga king Pusyamitra Sunga around 180 BCE . Mahadeva Buddhism Mahadeva is said to have received his ordination at Kukkutarama Pataliputta , before becoming the head of the sangha . External links http www.palikanon.com english pali names ku kukkutaaraama.htm Entry on Kukuttarama in the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names coord missing Bihar Category History of Bihar Category History of Buddhism Category Monasteries where Gautama Buddha stayed Category Archaeological sites in Bihar Category Buddhist monasteries in India Buddhism monastery stub India struct stub ... more details
Emperor years 187&ndash 180 s aft after PusyamitraSungaPusyamitra br Sunga dynasty s aft after ... A.D. , Calcutta University of Calcutta, pp.22 4 ref Usurpation of power by Pushyamitra Sunga He was killed in 180 BCE and power usurped by his commander in chief, the Brahmin general PusyamitraSunga , who then took over the throne and established the Sunga dynasty . Banabhatta in his Harshacharita ... more details
Agnimitra lang sa reigned 149&ndash 141 BCE was the second King of the Sunga Dynasty of northern India . He succeeded his father, PusyamitraSunga , in 149 BCE . The Vayu Purana and the Brahmanda Purana have assigned 8 years as the length of his reign. ref name lahiri Lahiri, Bela 1974 . Indigenous States of Northern India Circa 200 B.C. to 320 A.D. Calcutta University of Calcutta, pp.47 50 ref Ancestry and early life According to K lid sa in the M lavik gnimitra Act IV, Verse 14 , Agnimitra belonged to the Baimbika family Baimbika kula , while the Puranas mention him as a Sunga . ref Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra 1972 . Political History of Ancient India From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty , Calcutta University of Calcutta,1972, p.328 ref The M lavik gnimitra, Act V, Verse 20 informs us that he was the Goptri viceroy at Vidisha during his father s reign. ref Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra 1972 . Political History of Ancient India From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty , Calcutta University of Calcutta,1972, p.330 ref The M lavik gnimitra gives us the names of three of his queens Dharini the mother of the fourth Sunga King, Vasumitra , Iravati, and Malavika a princess of Vidarbha . War with Vidarbha According to the M lavik gnimitra Act I, Verse 6 8 and Act V, Verse 13 14 , a war broke out between the Sungas and neighboring Vidarbha kingdom during Agnimitra s reign. Before the rise of the Sungas, Vidarbha had become independent from the Mauryan Empire when a former Mauryan sachiva minister put his brother in law Yajnasena on the throne. Madhavasena, a cousin of Yajnasena, sought help from Agnimitra in overthrowing ... cousins recognized the suzerainity of the Sunga rulers. ref name lahiri ref http www.cs.colostate.edu ... succession box title Sunga Empire King of Sunga Dynasty years 149 141 BCE before Pushyamitra after ... regindex.html Regnal Chronologies . DEFAULTSORT Agnimitra Category Indian monarchs Category Sunga Empire ... more details
Ayodhya The Case Against the Temple is a book by Koenraad Elst that was published in 2002 by Voice of India . Elst has written several books on the Ayodhya debate and on the Ram Janmabhoomi controversy. Koenraad Elst reiterates his view that the Babri Mosque was built on an ancient Hindu temple, the Ram Janmabhoomi . The thrust of his argument is that Future historians will include the no temple argument of the 1990s as a remarkable case study in their surveys of academic fraud and politicized scholarship. Elst also writes in detail about claims that certain Hindu rulers, including Pusyamitra Sunga , were iconoclasm iconoclast s evidence to that effect had been previously presented by Romila Thapar , Richard Eaton and others. Other books by Elst about the debate include Ayodhya and After Issues Before Hindu Society and Ayodhya, The Finale . External links http koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com books acat index.htm Online version Koenraad Elst Category 2002 books Category Books by Koenraad Elst Category History books about Hinduism Category Political books Category Ayodhya hist book stub India stub ... more details
of the 180 BCE Sunga king PusyamitraSunga as en enemy of the Buddhist faith, which before him had been supported by the Mauryan Empire Then King Pusyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama . ... Pusyamitra therefore destroyed the sangharama ... more details
influence for quite some time after. Arrian , Anabasis of Alexander, V.22 24 Sunga period Image SungaEmpireMap.jpg right thumb Sagala as a part of the Sunga Empire C. 185 BCE 185 to 73 BCE . Following his overthrowing of the Mauryan Empire , PusyamitraSunga established the Sunga Empire and expanded northwest as far as Sagala. According to the 2nd century Ashokavadana Then King Pusyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama. ... Pusyamitra ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2011 Year nav 185 BC year in topic 185 NOTOC Year 185 BC was a year of the Roman calendar pre Julian Roman calendar . At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Puditanus or, less frequently, year 569 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 185 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events onlyinclude By place Roman Republic The Roman Republic Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder and his supporters of having received bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great Antiochus III . Scipio defies his accusers, reminds the Romans of their debt to him, and retires to his country house at Liternum in Campania . However, Cato is successful in breaking the political influence of Lucius Scipio and Scipio Africanus. Egypt The civil war between the northern and southern areas of Ancient Egypt Egypt ends with the arrest of Ankmachis by the Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemaic general Conanus. India Pusyamitra Sunga assassinates the Mauryan dynasty Mauryan emperor Brhadrata , which brings an end to that dynasty, after which he founds the Sunga dynasty . onlyinclude Births Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus , leading general and politician of the Roman Republic . As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi d. 129 BC Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher d. 110 BC Deaths Brhadrata , India n emperor, last ruler of the Indian Mauryan dynasty from 197 BC References Reflist DEFAULTSORT 185 Bc Category 185 BC ast 185 edC be 185 . . be x old 185 . . bs 185 p.n.e. ca 185 aC cs 185 p . n. l. cy 185 CC da 185 f.Kr. de 185 v. Chr. el 185 . . es 185 a. C. eo 185 eu K. a. 185 fa fr 185 fur 185 p.d.C. gl 185 ko 185 hy ... more details
187 184 BC , assassinated by PusyamitraSungaPusyamitra Shunga Shunga Dynasty 185 73 BC PusyamitraSungaPusyamitra Shunga 185 149 BC , founded the dynasty after assassinating Brihadrata Agnimitra 149 141 BC , son and successor of Pusyamitra Vasujyeshtha 141 131 BC Vasumitra 131 124 BC Andhraka ... Dynasty ruled Magadha from 684 424 BC. Afterwards the Nanda Dynasty, Maurya Dynasty, Sunga Dynasty ... right 200px Extent of the Sunga Empire Sunga dynasty main Sunga Empire The Sunga dynasty was established ... rulers, was assassinated by the then commander in chief of the Mauryan armed forces, PusyamitraSunga, while he was taking the Guard of Honour of his forces. PusyamitraSunga then ascended the throne. Kanva dynasty main Kanva dynasty The Kanva dynasty replaced the Sunga dynasty, and ruled in the eastern part of India from 71 BC to 26 BC. The last ruler of the Sunga dynasty was overthrown by Vasudeva of the Kanva dynasty in 75 BC. The Kanva ruler allowed the kings of the Sunga dynasty to continue ... 83 73 BC , last Sunga king Kanva Dynasty 73 26 BC Vasudeva c. 73 c. 66 BCE Bhumimitra c. 66 c. 52 BCE ... more details
, an event some have related to the rise of the Sunga emperor PusyamitraSunga who overtook the Mauryan ... is not known, but it seems probable that the author of the former was PusyamitraSunga Pushyamitra , the first of the Sunga kings 184 148 BCE , who was notorious for his hostility to Buddhism, and that the restoration ... view of Sanchi History Sunga period Infobox Indian jurisdiction native name Sanchi type city ..., p. 38. Calcutta Superintendent, Government Printing 1918 . ref During the later rule of the Sunga ... more details
the destruction of the Mauryan dynasty by the general PusyamitraSunga , who then founded the new Indian Sunga dynasty 185 BCE 78 BCE . The Indo Greek king Menander may have campaigned as far as the capital ... more details
refimprove date January 2009 Vasujyetha B. ???, R. 141 131 BCE, D. 131 BCE was the third King of the Sunga Empire Sunga Dynasty of Northern India . His reign was not well documented, thus little is known about him. He is credited ref name unknown unknown? ref with successfully completing his grandfather s Ashvamedha and for defeating forces of the Indo Greek Kingdom along the banks of the Sindhu River . ref name unknown His achievements are mentioned briefly in the Malavikagnimitra , which was composed during the later Gupta Empire Gupta era by Kalidasa . br br s start succession box title Sunga Empire King of Sunga Dynasty years 141 131 BCE before Agnimitra after Vasumitra s end References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Vasujyeshtha ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Indian monarchs Category Sunga Empire Category 131 BC deaths Category 2nd century BC rulers India royal stub bn pt Vasujyeshtha de Magadha ... more details
Image SungaMasculine.jpg thumb 170px Sunga Empire Sunga masculine figure. Devabhuti r. 83 73 BCE was the last king of the Sunga Empire in ancient India. He was assassinated by his minister Vasudeva Kanva and is said to have been overfond of the company of women. Following his death, the Sunga dynasty was then replaced by the subsequent Kanva dynasty Kanvas . start box succession box title Sunga Empire Sunga Ruler years 83 73 BCE before Bhagabhadra after Kanva dynasty end box India royal stub References Dictionary of Buddhism by Damien KEOWN Oxford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0 19 860560 9 Ashoka and the decline of the Mauryas Romila Thaper London 1961 . The Yuga Purana , John E. Mitchiner, Kolkata , The Asiatic Society, 2002, ISBN 81 7236 124 6 External links http www.hostkingdom.net india.html Magadha List of rulers of Magadha Category 73 BC deaths Category 73 BC crimes Category Rulers of Bengal Category Assassinated Indian people Category Murdered monarchs Category Indian monarchs Category People murdered in India Category 1st century BC Asian rulers bn ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2011 Year nav 180 BC year in topic 180 NOTOC Year 180 BC was a year of the Roman calendar pre Julian Roman calendar . At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Luscus and Piso Flaccus or, less frequently, year 574 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 180 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events onlyinclude By place Greece After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus of Macedon Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed. Roman Republic Roman Republic Rome completes its subjugation of all of Italy with the defeat of the Ligures Ligurians in a battle near modern Genoa . Rome deports 40,000 Ligurians to other areas of the Republic. Lucca becomes a Roman colony. Egypt Ptolemy VI Philometor , aged 6, rules as co regent with his mother, Cleopatra I of Egypt Cleopatra I , who, although a daughter of a Seleucid king, does not take King Seleucus IV Philopator Seleucus IV s side and remains on friendly terms with Rome. Following the death of Aristophanes of Byzantium , Aristarchus of Samothrace becomes librarian at Alexandria . Bactria Demetrius I of Bactria Demetrius I starts his invasion of present day Pakistan, following the earlier destruction of the Mauryan dynasty by general Pusyamitra Sunga . Apollodotus I , a general with Demetrius I of Bactria, becomes king of the western and southern parts of the Indo Greek kingdom, from Taxila in Punjab Pakistan Punjab to the areas of Sindh and possibly Gujarat . He maintains his allegiance to Demetrius I. China Emperor Wen of Han Emperor Wen of the Han dynasty ascends to the Chinese throne after quelling the clans of Empress Dowager L . onlyinclude Births Apollodorus of Athens , Greek scholar and gramm ... more details
king Muladeva of the coins is identifiable with Muladeva, murderer of the Sunga ruler Vasumitra or not though ... of his father, Phalgudeva. In this inscription he claimed himself as the sixth in descent from PusyamitraSunga . Dhanadeva issued both cast and die struck coins and both the types have a bull on obverse ... more details
were regained. He then attacks the kingdom of Magadha , and in Pataliputra , the capital of the Sunga , makes king Bahasatimita thought to be the Sunga King Brhaspatimitra, or Pusyamitra himself bow ... more details
Kalika supposed to be PusyamitraSunga and Buddhist king Kali supposed to be Maurya king Brihadratha ... alludes to the precarious political scenario following the collapse of Mauryan and Sunga Dynasty dynasties ... of Mauryan and Sunga Dynasty dynasties in northern India and its occupation by foreign hordes ... more details
refimprove date October 2009 The Kanva dynasty replaced the Sunga dynasty in Magadha , and ruled in the eastern part of India from 75 BCE to 26 BCE . The last ruler of the Sunga dynasty, Devbhooti, was overthrown by Vasudeva Kanva Vasudeva of the Kanva dynasty in 75 BC. The Kanva ruler allowed the kings of the Sunga dynasty to continue to rule in obscurity in a corner of their former dominions. Magadha was ruled by four Kanva rulers. Little is known about the Kanvas however, their dynasty was brought to an end by the Satavahanas of the south. Rulers Vasudeva Kanva Vasudeva c. 75 c. 66 BCE Bhumimitra c. 66 c. 52 BCE Narayana c. 52 c. 40 BCE Susarman c. 40 c. 26 BCE start box succession box title Magadha Magadha dynasties years before Sunga dynasty after Gupta dynasty end box References Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra Political History of Ancient India , University of Calcutta, 1972. Category Dynasties of Bengal Category History of Bengal Category Dynasties of India Category Magadha India hist stub bs Dinastija Kanva cs K nvov fr Kanva it Kanva ml nl Kanvadynastie ja ru sh Dinastija Kanva zh ... more details
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