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    Post-Mauryan Period (200BC-300AD) : Presented By:-Harshita Gupta

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    The document summarizes the political history of India between 200 BC and 300 AD, following the fall of the Mauryan Empire. Several foreign groups invaded and established kingdoms during this period, including the Indo-Greeks, Shakas/Scythians, and Kushanas. One of the most important Indo-Greek rulers was Menander, while an important Shakas king was Rudradaman. The Kushanas, including Kanishka, established a large empire across northern India and were important patrons of Buddhism.

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    The document summarizes the political history of India between 200 BC and 300 AD, following the fall of the Mauryan Empire. Several foreign groups invaded and established kingdoms during this period, including the Indo-Greeks, Shakas/Scythians, and Kushanas. One of the most important Indo-Greek rulers was Menander, while an important Shakas king was Rudradaman. The Kushanas, including Kanishka, established a large empire across northern India and were important patrons of Buddhism.

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    Post-Mauryan Period (200BC-300AD) : Presented By:-Harshita Gupta

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    POST-MAURYAN PERIOD

    (200BC-300AD)
    PRESENTED BY :- HARSHITA GUPTA
    INTRODUCTION
    • The five centuries that passed between the fall of the Mauryas and rise of the Guptas
    witnessed a lot of political instability and upheaval in the North of India. The South however
    remained fairly stable.
    • Many foreigners came to India during this period and settled down in India
    while in some parts of India there were indigineous kingdoms .Following are the rulers of post
    –Mauryan period
    1. Sungas
    2. Indo-Greeks
    3. Shakas\Scythians
    4. Kushanas
    INDO-GREEKS
    • The Greeks were the first foreign power in the subcontinent. They were the rulers of Bactria (area to
    the northwest of Hindukush mountains in the present day north Afghanistan). After Alexander died
    in 323 BC his generals stayed back .Hence the term Bactrian-Greeks was given to them originally.
    • One the Indo-Greek ruler named Demetrius came into conflict with Pushyamitra.
    • However, the most celebrated Indo-Greek ruler was MENANDER. His empire appears to have
    included southern Afghanistan and Gandhara,the region west of the river Indus.
    • He has been identified with the name king MILINDA (in Pali literature) mentioned in the famous
    text MILINDAPANHO, which contains philosophical questions that Milinda asked Nagasena (the
    Buddhist author of the text) and informs us that impressed by the answers,the king accepted
    Buddhism as his religion.
    • Menander is believed to have ruled between 155BC and 130BC .
    • GOLD coins for the FIRST time were introduced by the Indo-Greeks .
    SHAKAS/SCYTHIANS
    • Shakas or Scythians were nomadic central Asian tribes who destroyed the Indo-Greeks rule
    in North-Western India .
    • Reason for the migration of Shakas towards India was the “Yu-Chi” tribe .They lived
    between Central Asia and Northwest China.
    • People of the tribe kept enterinf into chiba in search of fodder but with the construction of
    the “ Great Wall Of China” it wasn’t possible for them to enter into China anymore. So,
    they moved to Central Asia and displaced Shakas .
    • Shakas then crossed Hindukush mountain and entered India.
    • Founder of the Shaka’s (Scythians rule) was MOGA/MAUES.
    • Most important the Shaka kings was RUDRADAMAN 1 .
    RUDRADAMAN
    • Rudradaman was the grandson of Chastana ,the founder of Kshatrapas dynasty.
    • He was instrumental in the decline of Satavahana empire.
    • He also conquered Yaudheya tribes of Haryana.
    • He took the title of MAHA-KSHTRAPA (Great Satrap) . His empire was spread over
    almost whole of western India .
    • His achievements are known through the only inscription that he got engraved on boulder
    at Girnar or Junagarh .
    • This inscription happens to be the first royal inscription of early India composed in
    chaste Sanskrit .
    • The script used was Sharda script which later developed into “DEVNAGIRI” .
    PARTHIANS
    KHUSHANAS
    • Kushanas were one of the 5 clans into which the Yu-Chi tribe was divided
    and originally belonged to Western-China .
    • The Khushanas after defeating Shakas and Pahlavas created a big empire in
    Pakistan
    • We come across two successive dynasties of the Kushanas
    1. KHADPHISES
    2. KANISHKA
    • KHADPHISES
    • Kujula Khadphises : He minted the coins as the imitation of roman coins.
    • Wema Khadphises : He issued a large number of gold coins and spread his kingdom in east of India
    .
    • KANISHKA
    •Kanishka became the ruler in 78 A.D. , to mark his coronation, he started his new calender
    “SAKA ERA”
    •He was a great patron of Buddhism .
    •It was in his Buddhist council at Kundalavana (present day Harwan, near J&K) that buddhism
    got split into two schools : HINAYANA & MAHAYANA
    •At it’s peak, his empire extended from Khotan in the Northwest to Benaras in the East and
    Kashmir in the North to Saurashtra and Malwa in the South .
    •The capital of his empire was Purushpura (present day Peshawar)

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