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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2017}}
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|name =Shalishuka Maurya
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|successor = [[Devavarman]]
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{{Maurya}}
'''Shalishuka''' ({{IAST3|Śāliśuka}}) Maurya was a ruler of the Indian [[Maurya dynasty]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sircar|first1=D. C.|author-link=D. C. Sircar|title=The Account of the Yavanas in the Yuga-Purāṇa|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland|date=April 1963|volume=95|issue=1-2|page=7|doi=10.1017/S0035869X00121379|jstor=25202591}}</ref> He ruled from 215–202 BCE. He was the successor and son of [[Samprati|Samprati Maurya]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=King of Maurya VI - Shalishuka (215-202 BC)|url=https://www.geni.com/people/King-of-Maurya-VI-Shalishuka-215-202-BC/6000000041033672907|access-date=2020-07-25|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US}}</ref> While the [[Yuga Purana]] section of the [[Gargi Samhita]] mentions him as a quarrelsome, unrighteous ruler, he is also noted as being of "righteous words"<ref>Raychaudhuri, H.C. (1972) ''Political History of Ancient India'', [[Calcutta]]: [[University of Calcutta]], pp.312-3n.</ref>

{{quote|{{ordered list | start = 44
| In that beautiful {{IAST|[[Pataliputra|Puṣpapura]]}}, occupied by fewer than a hundred kings, there will be {{IAST|Śāliśūka}}, born for the destruction of the truth, the offspring of ''karma'' (Fate).
| That king, the offspring of ''karma'', cheerful-minded [yet] fond of conflict, [will be] an oppressor of his own kingdom, of righteous speech but unrighteous conduct;}}|source=Yuga Purana<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/TheYugaPurana/The%20Yuga%20Purana#page/n73 |title=The Yuga Purana |date=1986 |publisher=[[The Asiatic Society]] |location=Calcutta |page=91 |translator-last=Mitchiner |translator-first=John E.}}</ref>}}

According to the [[Puranas]] he was succeeded by [[Devavarman]].<ref>Thapar, Romila (2001). ''{{IAST|Aśoka}} and the Decline of the Mauryas'', [[New Delhi]]: [[Oxford University Press]], {{ISBN|0-19-564445-X}}, p.183</ref>

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{{s-ttl|title=[[Maurya Dynasty|Maurya Emperor]]|years=215–202 BCE}}
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==Notes==
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[[Category:Mauryan emperors]]
[[Category:3rd-century BC Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:3rd-century BC births]]
[[Category:210s BC deaths]]

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