Pushyamitra Shunga was the founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire in East India. He was a follower of Vedic Dharma
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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