Pusyamitra Shunga 1st Shunga Emperor

• Preferred Name: Pusyamitra Shunga 1st Shunga Emperor
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: burned Buddhist scriptures, killed Buddhist monks, and destroyed 500 monasteries in and around Kashmir
  
• FSID: GFMQ-7VH
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire
  
• MilitaryService: killed his master Brihadratha, the last Mauryan king185 BC
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Shunga EmperorBET 185 BC AND 149 BC
  
• Death: Y
  
• Religion: Hinduism
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST: Puṣyamitra Śuṅga) (ruled c. 185 – c. 149 BCE) was the founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire which he established against the Maurya Empire.
  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 his empire stretched as far as Sakala (Sialkot) in the Punjab region in the northwest.
  The Buddhist texts claim that Pushyamitra persecuted the Buddhists; scholars have rejected these claims.
  Pushyamitra Shunga was succeeded in 148 BCE by his son Agnimitra.

1. Agnimitra 2nd Shunga Emperor of India,     d. 141 BC