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proper explaination of The Post Mauryan Period (C200 BC to 300 A.D.) Achievements of the Sungas

Answer 1

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$The flourishing trade and crafts and growing use of money was an incentive to the growth of new towns.</p><p></p><p>Vaishali, Pataliputra, Varanasi, Kausambi, Sravasti, Hastinapur, Mathura, Indraprastha etc. were some of the prosperous towns of North India during the Kushan period.</p><p></p><p></p><p>$

$These towns find mention in the old Chinese texts or records of Chinese pilgrims. The town-sites of Sonpur, Buxur, and Ghazipur in Bihar also flourished during the Kushan age. Excavations have unearthed several Kushan towns in Meerut and Muzzaffarnagar districts. Ludhiana, Ropar and Jalandhar in the Punjab were among the flourishing towns. Ujjain was an important town of the Saka kingdom because it was nodal point of two trade routes – one from Mathura and the other from Kausambi.$

Answer 2

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The most important political developments of the Post-Maurya period was the onslaught of for­eigners from the north-west.

The first among them were the Bactrian Greeks, known in earlier Indian literature as Yavanas; the word was derived from the Old Persian from Yauna, signifying originally Ionian Greeks but later all people of Greek Nationality.

The first to invade India were the Greeks or Bactrian Greeks who were called the Indo-Greeks or Bactrian Greeks in the early second century B.C. The history of the Indo-Greeks has been recon­structed mainly on the evidence of their coins bearing legends in Greek and later in Brahmi as well.

Demetrius, son of Euthydemus, king of Bactria was perhaps the first foreign (Indo-Greek) king after Alexander who carried Greek arms into the interior of India. He reduced to submission a considerable portion of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Sind.

The best remembered of the Indo-Greek kings was Menander, (165-145 D C.) who, as Milinda, attained fame in the Buddhist text Milindapanho or the question of Milinda-a catechismal discussion in Buddhism supposedly conducted by Menander and the Buddhist philosopher Nagasena, resulting in Menander’s conversion to Buddhism.

Menander stabilised Indo-Greek power, in addition to extending its frontiers in India.

CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF SUNGAS -

Glorious Era in the annals of Indian History. Rulers saved the country from foreign invasions. ...

Revived Brahmanism in place of Buddhism. ...

Sufficient progess in the field of literature.

Rulers were able patrons of literature and learning. ...

Remarkable progress in the field of Art. ...

Stupa of Sanchi was also enlarged by Sunga rulers.

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