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[[File:SungaMasculine.jpg|thumb|Bhagabhadra]]
'''Bhagabhadra''' ([[Brahmi script|Brāhmī]]: '''𑀪𑀸𑀕𑀪𑀤𑁆𑀭''' {{IAST|Bhā-ga-bha-dra}}, {{IAST|Bhāgabhadra}}) was one of the kings of the Indian [[Shunga Empire|Shunga]] dynasty. He ruled in north, central, and eastern India around 110 BCE.{{cn|date=June 2020}} Although the capital of the Shungas was at Pataliputra, he was also known to have held court at Vidisha. It is thought that the name Bhagabhadra also appears in the regnal lists of the Shungas in the [[Puranic]] records, under the name Bhadraka, fifth ruler of the Shungas.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

==Heliodorus inscription==
He is best known from an [[Indian inscriptions|inscription]] at the site of [[Vidisha]] in central [[India]], the [[Heliodorus pillar]], in which contacts with an embassy from the [[Indo-Greek]] king [[Antialcidas]] is recorded, and where he is named "Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Saviour, son of the princess from [[Benares]]":

[[Image:Coin of Antialcidas.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Indo-Greek]] king [[Antialcidas]] was the one who sent an embassy to Bhagabhadra.]]
{{Quote|
:''Devadevasa Va [sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam
:''karito i[a] Heliodorena bhaga-
:''vatena Diyasa putrena Takhasilakena''
:''Yonadatena agatena maharajasa''
:''Amtalikitasa upa[m]ta samkasam-rano
:''Kasiput[r]asa [Bh]agabhadrasa tratarasa
:''vasena [chatu]dasena rajena vadhamanasa''
}}
Translation:
{{Quote|
:This Garuda-standard of [[Vasudeva]] ([[Krishna]] or [[Vishnu]]), 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.
}}
:(Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report (1908-1909))

[[Image:Sanchi2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Some of the expansion work at the Great Stupa at [[Sanchi]] may have been sponsored by Bhagabhadra.]]
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. Altogether, three Shunga pillars have also been found in the area.The Garuda Pillar erected by Heliodorous and the inscription written on this pillar is regarded as the earliest material evidence of Bhagavatism in India. <ref>{{cite journal|last1=Stadtner|first1=Donald|title=A Sunga Capital from Vidisa|journal=Artibus Asiae|date=1975|volume=37|issue=1/2|pages=101–104|doi=10.2307/3250214|jstor=3250214}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/sastra-vedas/heliodorus-inscription.jpg Photo of the pillar with Brahmi inscription]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106151644/http://vidisha.nic.in/tourism/vidisha.htm Heliodorus pillar at Vidisha]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040812200836/http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/HeliodorusPillar.htm Text of the inscriptions on Heliodorus pillar]
*[http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/vedic-upanisads/vedic-archeology.html Vedic archeology]

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| title = [[Shunga Empire|Shunga Ruler]]
| years = circa 110 BCE
| before = [[Vasumitra]]
| after = [[Devabhuti]]
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