[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c24.s2.2 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s2.2 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c24.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2.2) ² 'In a frenzy of passion the over-libidinous Çuṅga was at the instance of his minister Vasudeva reft of his life by a daughter of Devabhūti's slave-woman disguised as his queen' (Bāṇa, \*Harṣa-carita\*, ch. vi, transl. Cowell and Thomas, p. 193). 'The minister Vasudeva, forcibly overthrowing the dissolute king Devabhūmi because of his youth, will become king among the Śuṅgas' (Pargiter, p. 71). - [Previous: c24.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2.1) - [Next: c24.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2.3) - [Up: c24.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2) ## Linked texts (2) - [Harṣacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.harsacarita) — Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c24.s2.2) · Pramāṇa