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Kanva coup d'état
| Kanva coup d'état | |||||||||
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| Part of Coup d'état of the Indian Subcontinent | |||||||||
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| House of Kanvas | Shunga Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Vasudeva Kanva | Devabhuti X | ||||||||
Kanva coup d'état was a coup d'etat by the Brahmin minister of the Shunga Empire. The coup d'etat was successfully and Devabhuti was assissinated by Vasudeva Kanva.
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The later Shunga Emperors after Pushyamitra Shunga, had little power and were puppets in the hands of their ministers. According to Bana's Harshacharita, Devabhuti was assassinated by his prime minister Vasudeva Kanva with help of the daughter of a slave woman of Devabhuti, who disguised herself as his empress.[1][2][3]
He is said to have been overly fond of the company of women[4][5] and to have been overindulgent in sensual pleasures.[6][7]
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Citations[edit | edit source]
- ↑ INDIA: Brief History Volume 4. Symist. 7 July 2019.
- ↑ Rao, B.V. (January 2012). World history from early times to A D 2000. Sterling Publishers. p. 97. ISBN 9788120731882.
- Shankar, Rama (1967). History of Ancient India. Tripathi. p. 189. ISBN 9788120800182. - ↑ INDIA: Brief History Volume 3 (EBook). Symist. 3 March 2019. p. 34.
- ↑ Raychaudhuri 2006, p. 333.
- ↑ Thapar 2013, p. 296.
- ↑ "Book Four: The Royal Dynasties". The Visnu Purana: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes (1 ed.). ANU Press Languages. June 23, 2021. p. 56. ISBN 978-1760464400. JSTOR j.ctv1sjwpmj.10.
- ↑ Sen, Sailendra Nath (1999). Ancient Indian History and Civilization. New Age International, 1999. p. 170. ISBN 978-8-12241-198-0.
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Thapar, Romila (2013), The Past Before Us, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-72651-2
- "Dictionary of Buddhism" by Damien Keown (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 0-19-860560-9
- Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (2006), Political History of Ancient India, Cosmo Publications, ISBN 81-307-0291-6
- "Aśoka and the decline of the Mauryas" Romila Thaper (London 1961).
- "The Yuga Purana", John E. Mitchiner, Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2002, ISBN 81-7236-124-6