🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Heliodorus Pillar
Late Sunga (Indo-Greek–Sunga contact) c.125–75 BCE · Indo-Greek (Taxila) → Sunga (Vidisha)
Indo-Greek Garuda pillar 113 BCE — Heliodorus dedication to Vasudeva (earliest Greek Hindu inscription).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bharhut
Sunga → early Satavahana (Shunga art) 150–75 BCE · Sunga (Dhanabhuti lineage)
Great Sunga stupa 150–75 BCE — 11 m vedika with toranas, Jataka-labelled reliefs and yakshi pillars (Cunningham).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient temple
Heliodorus Garuda Pillar
Sunga 2nd c BCE Indo-Greek diplomatic · Sunga–Indo-Greek — Bhagavata Garuda cult
Heliodorus Garuda Pillar — 6.4-m Garuda-column erected c.150–113 BCE by Heliodorus, Greek ambassador of Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to Sunga king Bhagabhadra, as Garuda-dhvaja before Vasudeva…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Maurya to Gupta 3rd century BCE–12th century CE (great stupa 260 BCE, gateways 25 BCE–50 CE) · Maurya / Sunga / Satavahana / Gupta Buddhist
Earliest stone Buddhist stupa (Maurya 3rd c BCE, enlarged Sunga 1st c BCE–1st c CE) crowning hilltop at Sanchi, 36.5 m diameter hemispheric brick-and-stone dome encasing relics.