3.1.7 Post-Mauryan period notes

1. 3.1.7.1Sungas, Kanvas and Kharavela of Kalinga

   After the Mauryas, the Shungas and then the Kanvas, both Brahmana dynasties, ruled a smaller Magadha, while Kharavela of Kalinga rose in the east and left the Hathigumpha inscription.

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2. 3.1.7.2Indo-Greeks: Demetrius, Menander and their coinage

   Greek rulers from Bactria entered north-west India after the Mauryas, ruled parts of it for about two centuries, and introduced portrait coins with bilingual legends.

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3. 3.1.7.3Sakas and Parthians: Rudradaman and the Junagadh inscription

   Central Asian Sakas and the Parthians (Pahlavas) came into north-west and western India after the Greeks; the most notable ruler was the Saka Western Kshatrapa Rudradaman I, whose Junagadh inscription is the earliest long inscription in classical Sanskrit.

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4. 3.1.7.4Kushanas: Kanishka, the Saka era and the Fourth Buddhist Council

   The Kushanas, a branch of the Yueh-chi people from Central Asia, built an empire from Central Asia to the Ganga plain, with Kanishka as its greatest ruler, a patron of Buddhism, art and trade.

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5. 3.1.7.5Satavahanas in the Deccan: an all-India overview

   The Satavahanas ruled the Deccan from about the first century BCE to the third century CE, linked north and south India, stood against the Sakas, and promoted trade, Prakrit and Buddhist and Brahmanical patronage.

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6. 3.1.7.6Post-Mauryan economy: Indo-Roman trade, guilds and coinage

   Between about 200 BCE and 300 CE, new coinages, powerful guilds and a flourishing trade with Rome (by sea) and Central Asia (by the Silk Route) made the post-Mauryan period one of India's most commercial.

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7. 3.1.7.7Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati schools of sculpture

   In the first centuries CE three major schools of Buddhist sculpture grew up: the Greek-influenced Gandhara school in the north-west, the indigenous Mathura school, and the narrative Amaravati school of the Andhra region.

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