State · 185 – 75 BCE

Shunga Empire

A state of 185 – 75 BCE — 110 years in South Asia. It replaced Maurya Empire. It was replaced by Kanva dynasty. The atlas records 4 things within it — people 4. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 8 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 110 years; 185 BCE – 75 BCE
Rulers: 10; the Sunga emperor
Most ground: 1.16 million km²; in 91 BCE
Within it: 4; recorded rows

Map: Shunga Empire in 91 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Shunga Empire in 91 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.16 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Shunga Empire in 170 BCE, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Shunga Empire in 91 BCE, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Maurya Empire · replaces · 322 – 185 BCE

After it

Kanva dynasty · replaced by · 70 – 25 BCE

Rulers

The line of Sunga emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Pushyamitra Shunga	185 BCE – 148 BCE	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Agnimitra	148 BCE – 140 BCE	8 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Vasujyeshtha	140 BCE – 131 BCE	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vasumitra	131 BCE – 124 BCE	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Andhraka	124 BCE – 122 BCE	2 years	ending not on record
Pulindaka	122 BCE – 119 BCE	3 years	ending not on record
Ghoshavasu	119 BCE – 101 BCE	18 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Devabhuti	83 BCE – 73 BCE	10 years	killedWikidata's manner of death

10 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 185 BCE – 73 BCE. Median reign 8.5 years. 0 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

425,700 km² in 165 BCE, 1.16 million km² in 75 BCE; at its largest 1.16 million km² in 85 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

200 BCE – 101 BCE2 rows

Agnimitra · ruler · 150 – 141 BCE
Devabhuti · ruler · 151 – 73 BCE

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood110 years
stood longer than 49% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,158,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 86% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 110

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 196 BCE – 64 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 91 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q651377 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.