Editing Pushyamitra Shunga (section)

==Foundation of the Shunga Empire==
Pushyamitra Shunga founded the [[Shunga Empire]] after assassinating the last Mauryan emperor [[Brihadratha Maurya]]. Subsequently, he drove out the Greeks with the [[Shunga–Greek War]] and ruled for 36 years.<ref name="s590">{{cite book | last=Roxburgh | first=E. | title=The Mauryan Empire of India | publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing | series=Great Empires | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-5026-0640-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpFmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42| page=42}}</ref><ref name="v667">{{cite book | last=Tarn | first=W.W. | title=The Greeks in Bactria and India | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Library Collection - Classics | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-108-00941-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HeJS3nE9cAC&pg=PA175 | page=175}}</ref><ref name="v298">{{cite book | last=Kulke | first=H. | last2=Rothermund | first2=D. | title=A History of India | publisher=Routledge | series=Asian history | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-415-15482-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0GEtXp-GsUC&pg=PA71 | page=71}}</ref>

The Buddhist text ''[[Ashokavadana]]'' names Pushyamitra as the last Mauryan emperor.{{sfn|Lahiri|1974|p=29}} {{quote|[[Samprati|Sampadin's]] son was Bṛhaspati who, in turn, had a son named Vṛṣasena, and Vṛṣasena had a son named Puṣyadharman, and Pusyadharman begot [[Pushyamitra|Pusyamitra]]...... With the death of Pusyamitra, the Mauryan lineage came to an end.<br>--Aśokāvadāna{{sfn|Strong|1989|pp=292, 294}} }} This text appears to have confused Brihadratha with Pushyamitra.{{sfn|Lahiri|1974|p=30}}

H. C. Raychaudhuri theorized that the name "Shunga" is derived from the Sanskrit word for the fig tree.<ref>''Raychaudhari Hemchandra, "Tha Audvijja Senani of the Harivansa?", Indian culture, Vol. IV, 1938, P. 360-365''</ref>