Bhagabhadra

[citation needed] Although the capital of the Shungas was at Pataliputra, he was also known to have held court at Vidisha.

[citation needed] He is best known from an inscription at the site of Vidisha in central India, the Heliodorus pillar, in which contacts with an embassy from the Indo-Greek King Antialcidas of Taxila is recorded, and where he is named Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Saviour, son of the princess from Benares": Translation: This Garuda-standard of Vasudeva, the God of Gods was erected here by the devotee Heliodoros, the son of Dion, a man of Taxila, sent by the Great Greek (Yona) King Antialkidas, as ambassador to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Savior son of the princess from Benares, in the fourteenth year of his reign.

This inscription is important in that it tends to validate that the Shungas ruled in the area of Vidisa around 100 BCE.

This is also corroborated by some artistic realization on the nearby Sanchi stupa thought to belong to the period of the Shungas.

This biography of a member of an Indian royal house is a stub.

The Indo-Greek king Antialcidas was the one who sent an embassy to Bhagabhadra.
Some of the expansion work at the Great Stupa at Sanchi may have been sponsored by Bhagabhadra.