The End of the Maurya Empire: The Shunga Coup (185 BCE)

185 BCE · Pataliputra (Patna) · political

The last Mauryan emperor, Brihadratha, was killed before the army by his own general Pushyamitra Shunga, who founded the Shunga dynasty.

Ashoka's peaceful Buddhist empire came to an end. | The end of the subcontinent's political unity and the renewed rise of Brahmanical traditions.

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What was The End of the Maurya Empire: The Shunga Coup (185 BCE)?
The last Mauryan emperor, Brihadratha, was killed before the army by his own general Pushyamitra Shunga, who founded the Shunga dynasty.
When did The End of the Maurya Empire: The Shunga Coup (185 BCE) happen?
185 BCE
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Pataliputra (Patna)