Pushyamitra : founded the Śuṅga dynasty (c.185 BC). Commander-in-chief of Bṛihadratha, the last & least successful Maurya emperor, whom he was constrained to depose to protect the nation from invaders from north-west emboldened by Buddhist Ashoka’s pacifism. Pushyamitra celebrated his victory by an Ashwamedha yajña thus declaring the revival of the Kshatriya dharma. His dynasty ruled for 112 years.
... Patanjali makes Pushyamitra Śunga his contemporary? Even after quoting the relevant phrase from Patanjali, Mookerji 1 is content to say no more than that Patanjali was "most probably" a contemporary of Pushyamitra. Vincent 1."The Fall of the Magadhan Empire", op. cit., p. 98. Page 345 Smith, 1 knowing full well the same phrase, is even less sure: Pushyamitra, to him, is "perhaps"... create a veritable paradox with regard to the other famous grammarian, Patanjali? Does not Patanjali mention King Pushyamitra, the first Suiiga, as his contemporary? If the Mauryas' empire became fragmented in 914 B.C., as you have said, and if the Śungas commenced with Pushyamitra at almost the same time, Patanjali turns out to be a predecessor of Pānini. But Patanjali actually comments on Pānini's... perform (as priests) the sacrifice instituted by Pushyamitra (iha vasāmah -iha Pusyamitram yājayāmah)" 3 If this is Patanjali's meaning, we can credit Weber's view, as quoted by Puri, 4 "that Patanjali did not live at that time, but the memory of the king was still cherished by the Brāhmanas". All scholars of Sanskrit are cognizant of the Pushyamitra-references and yet several eminent names have ...
... y increasing ingenuities of the ritualist, the grammarian and the sectarian polemical disputant. When after the fall of the Buddhistic Mauryas, feeble successors of the great Asoka, first under Pushyamitra and his son and afterwards under the Guptas, Hinduism revived, a return to the old forms of the creed and the old Vedic scholarship was no longer possible. The old pre-Buddhistic Sanscrit was, to... y increasing ingenuities of the ritualist, the grammarian and the sectarian polemical disputant. When after the fall of the Buddhistic Mauryas, feeble successors of the great Asoka, first under Pushyamitra and his son and afterwards under the Guptas, Hinduism revived, a return to the old forms of the creed and the old Vedic scholarship was no longer possible. The old pre-Buddhistic Sanscrit was, to ...
... Samprati) ruling independently in different parts of the country. Even the supposed last Maurya Brihadratha - who met his death at the hands of his commander Pushyamitra Śunga - was one of Aśoka's immediate or at least proximate successors. Pushyamitra started the Śunga dynasty in the eastern provinces, where Daśaratha had been ruling. It lasted for 112 years but in its last 45 its power was superseded ...
... 401 Purindrasena, 477 Pūrnavarman, 479 Pūrnotsanga, 584 Puru, 96 Purugupta, 494 Purūravas, 96 Pusalkar. A. D., i, ii, 3, 68, 71, 96, 126, 127, 261, 309 Pushyamitra (Sunga), 237, 345, 346, 594 Pushy amitras, 513 Puskaravati, 455 Rāghava/Rāghu, 96 Raghuvamsa, 165 Rājasekhara, 423 Rājasimha, 274 Rājatarahginī, see ... Nicator, 1, 155, 192-5, 209, 212, 219, 226, 229, 237, 430, 433, 434, 435-7, 438, 445-6, 524, 531, 532, 596-7, 598 Sen, S.N., 506, 508 Senāpati (Skanda, Kārttikeya), 578, 582 Senāpati Pushyamitra Sunga, 237 Senart, E., 292, 293, 297, 301, 304 Sengupta.P. C, 108, 109 Septuagint, 258, 259 Serapis, 445 'Serendib', 'Serendiba', 'Serendivus', 419 Sesa, 191 Shākas, ...
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