Sunga

Excavations at Deorkothar -- which seems to predate the late Mauryan-Sunga period (fourth through first centuries B.C.), when most early stupa (temple) complexes were built -- promise to throw light on the genesis and spread of Buddhism in Central India, providing missing links in the history of Buddhist art and architecture.

Does Newly Excavated Buddhist Temple Provide A Missing Link? 2001

The play represents Agnimitra's father, the founder of the Sunga dynasty, as still living.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

Puspamitra was the founder of the Sunga dynasty of Magadha kings, having been the general of Vrihadratha, the last of the Maurya race, whom he deposed and put to death: he was succeeded by his son Agnimitra who reigned at Vidica (Bhilsa) in the second century B.C.

Tales from the Hindu Dramatists R. N. Dutta

Then Sacu and Suac went out, and Sunga was left to cook.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Inscriptions have been found upon its front, and in the interior on one of the pillars, that teach us that it was excavated by an inhabitant of Nassik, under the reign of King Krishna, in honor of King Badrakaraka, the fifth of the dynasty of Sunga, who mounted the throne 129 B.C.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

Then Sunga and Suac went out into the forest again.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Yet in Kalidasa's day, the glories of the Sunga dynasty were long departed, nor can we see why the poet should have chosen his hero and his era as he did.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

"Well," said Sunga, "let me be the cook while you and Suac are the hunters."

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Pushyamitra who in 184 B.C. overthrew the Mauryas and established the Sunga dynasty was a patron of the Brahmans.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

Meanwhile the sound of the firing from Sunga immediately renewed the hostilities at Fangalii.

A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872