Bhagabhadra
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Dharmic |
Bhagabhadra (
Puranic records, under the name Bhadraka, fifth ruler of the Shungas.[citation needed
]
Heliodorus inscription
He is best known from an
Benares
":
Indo-Greek king Antialcidas
was the one who sent an embassy to Bhagabhadra.
- Devadevasa Va [sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam
- karito i[a] Heliodorena bhaga-
- vatena Diyasa putrena Takhasilakena
- Yonadatena agatena maharajasa
- Amtalikitasa upa[m]ta samkasam-rano
- Kasiput[r]asa [Bh]agabhadrasa tratarasa
- vasena [chatu]dasena rajena vadhamanasa
Translation:
- This Garuda-standard of Vasudeva (Krishna or Vishnu), the God of Gods
- was erected here by the devotee Heliodoros,
- the son of Dion, a man of Taxila,
- sent by the Great Greek (Yona) King
- Antialkidas, as ambassador to
- King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Savior
- son of the princess from
Benares, in the fourteenth year of his reign.
- (Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report (1908-1909))
This inscription is important in that it tends to validate that the Shungas ruled in the area of Vidisa around 100 BCE. This is also corroborated by some artistic realization on the nearby Sanchi stupa thought to belong to the period of the Shungas. Altogether, three Shunga pillars have also been found in the area .The Garuda pillar erected by Heliodorous and the inscription written on this pillar is regarded as the earliest material evidence of Bhagavatism in India. [1]
References
- JSTOR 3250214.
External links
- Photo of the pillar with Brahmi inscription
- Heliodorus pillar at Vidisha
- Text of the inscriptions on Heliodorus pillar
- Vedic archeology
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