Question

Who was Pushyamitra Shunga?

Answer

Pushyamitra Shunga was the Commander-in-Chief of the Maurya armies in the last days of the Mauryas. In approximately 185 B.C. he murdered his master and founded the Sunga dynasty (185-72 B.C.), Pushyamitra’s reign was marked by a Brahminical revival as a reaction against Ashoka’s patronage of Buddhism.

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