I hate vedic sungas!

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Dear all, The vedic brahmanic sungas ruled the whole of north india for nearly 120 years and during that time corrupted much of indian literature (re-wrote texts), brutally slaughtered Buddhists and Jains and caused the revival of ancient vedic yaga culture. (May it is the vedic hindu yaga cult we remember today, and numerous allied vedic texts took birth during this period only). If the history of india before this period is DARK then for most of it we owe to these brutal ethical lost sungas! Love and regards,Sreenadh Let me quote something about Sungas from the following website: http://hemant-bhardwaj.blogspot.com/2008/08/sungas-to-kshatrapas-187-bc-4th-c-ad.html //Sunga Empire (187-75 BC) The Sunga dynasty was established in 185 BCE, about 50 years after Ashoka's death, when the king Brhadrata, the last of the Mauryan rulers, was brutally murdered by the then commander-in-chief of the Mauryan armed forces, Pusyamitra

Sunga, while he was taking the Guard of Honour of his forces. Pusyamitra Sunga then ascended the throne. Pusyamitra Sunga, a Brahmin, is known for his hostility and persecution towards the Buddhist faith. He is recorded as having "destroyed monasteries and killed Monks" (Divyavadana, p429-434): 84.000 Buddhist stupas which had been built by the Mauryan king Ashoka were destroyed (R. Thaper), and 100 gold coins were offered for the head of each Buddhist monk (Indian

Historical Quarterly Vol. XXII, p.81 ff cited in Hars.407). A large number of Buddhist monasteries (viharas) were converted to Hindu temples, in such places as Nalanda, Bodhgaya, Sarnath or Mathura. From around 180 BCE the Indian territory was invaded as far as Pataliputra by the Greco-Bactrian ruler Demetrius, with the long-term effect of confining the Sungas to the eastern part of India. Demetrius

established an Indo-Greek kingdom in the northern and northwestern part of India, which was to last until the end of the 1st century BCE,

and under which Buddhism was able to flourish. In particular, one of the successors of Demetrius, the Indo-Greek "Saviour king" Menander (Pali: Milinda) was a strong benefactor of the Buddhist faith at that time. During the historical Sunga period (185 to 73 BCE), Buddhist activity also managed to survive somewhat in central India (Madhya Pradesh) as suggested by some architectural expansions that were done at the stupas of Sanchi and Bharhut, originally started under King Ashoka. These stupas, however, are located quite far from the Sunga center of power, and it is questioned whether these works were due to the weakness of the control of the Sungas in these areas, or a late sign of tolerance on their part. The last of the Sunga kings was Devabhuti.// Further the following link may help you to read something more about these kings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunga_Empire