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For the 5th century CE tribe, see Pushyamitras.

Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST: Puṣyamitra Śuṅga) (c. 185 – c. 149 BCE) was the founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire in East India. He was a follower of Brahmanism.

Pushyamitra Shunga

Bharhut Sunga individual.jpg

Man on a relief, Bharhut, Sunga period, 2nd century BCE.

Shunga Emperor

Reign

c. 185 – c. 149 BCE

Predecessor

Brihadratha Maurya

Successor

Agnimitra

Issue

Agnimitra

Dynasty

Shunga

Pushyamitra was originally a Senapati "General" of the Maurya Empire. In 185 BCE he assassinated the last Mauryan Emperor, Brihadratha Maurya, during an army review, and proclaimed himself emperor.

Pushyamitra is recorded to have performed numerous Ashvamedha campaigns to legitimize his right to rule.

Inscriptions of the Shungas have been found as far as the Ayodhya (the Dhanadeva-Ayodhya inscription), and the Divyavadana mentions that he sent an army to persecute Buddhist monks as far as Sakala (Sialkot) in the Punjab region in the northwest.

The Buddhist texts state that Pushyamitra cruelly persecuted the Buddhists, although some modern scholars have expressed skepticism about these claims.

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Ancestry

Alleged persecution of Buddhists

Succession of the throne