Bhagabhadra was one of the kings of the Indian Sunga dynasty. He ruled in central and eastern India around 110 BCE. Approximate greatest extent of the Sunga empire (185 BCE-73 BCE) For other uses of the term Sunga see Sunga (disambiguation) The Sunga empire (or Shunga empire) controlled the eastern part of India from around 185 to 73 BCE. It was established after the fall of the Indian Mauryan empire. ... (Redirected from 110 BCE) Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC - 110s BC - 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC Years: 115 BC 114 BC 113 BC 112 BC 111 BC - 110 BC...
He is best known from an inscription at the site of Vidisha in central India, the Heliodorus pillar, in which contacts with an ambassy from the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas is recorded. Vidisha is a city and district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India. ... The Heliodorus pillar was erected around 110 BCE in central India at the site of Vidisha, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of the Sunga king Bhagabhadra. ... Maximum extent of Indo-Greek territory circa 175 BCE. The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 BCE. They are the continuation of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek... Silver tetradrachm of King Antialcidas (r. ...
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This was erected by Heliodorus, the Greek ambassador to India in 113 B.C. Heliodorus was sent to the court of King Bhagabhadra by Antialkidas, the Greek king of Taxila.
The kingdom of Taxila was part of the Bactrian region in northwest india, which had been conquered by Alexander the Great in 325 BC.
This Garuda column of Vasudeva (Vishnu), the god of gods, was erected here by Heliodorus, a worshiper of Vishnu, the son of Dion, and an inhabitant of Taxila, who came as Greek ambassador from the Great King Antialkidas to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Savior, then reigning prosperously in the fourteenth year of his kingship.
Close to the ruins are the remains of votive pillars with palm-leaf capitals; the only one the still stands in the Heliodorus pillar, also known as khambha Baba.
A monolithic, free-standing column, the Pillar bears an inscription which states that it was a Garuda Pillar, raised in honour of Vasudeva by Heliodorus, a resident of Taxila, who had been sent to the court of Bhagabhadra as an evnoy of the Indo-Bactrian monarch, Antialkidas.
This inscription is a particularly valuable historical record, revealing both the relations that existed between the region and the Greek kingdoms of thd Punjab, and the remarkable fact that a Greek had become a follower of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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