Pusyamitra Sunga

Pushyamitra Shunga ( 185-149 BC) was an Indian King and founder of the Shunga dynasty named after him.

Pushyamitra Shunga was the general of Brihadratha, who was the last ruler of the Mauryan Empire. In a demonstration of soldiers around 185 BC Pushyamitra Shunga killed him and raised himself ruler. Pushyamitra Shunga was Brahmin and is projected to multiple sources at the promotion of Buddhism, which was strong in the Mauryan Empire set. Although he seems to have performed Vedic animal sacrifice, as well as Buddhist temples were under the Schunga dynasty but extended so that an anti - Buddhist policy is unlikely.

Shortly after his accession to the throne he had to fight against the expanding empire of the Indo- Greeks, who managed to conquer the area to the west of his dominions to Mathura. Another enemy was Kharavela of Kalinga, which it even succeeded in conquering Pataliputra, the Shunga capital.