🇮🇳 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).
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Tagsvidisha
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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mauryan–Sunga–Satavahana–Gupta 600 BCE–500 CE · Magadhan → Sunga → Satavahana → Gupta
Ancient Vesanagara city mound at Betwa-Bes confluence — Sunga–Satavahana twin capital of Vidisha (600 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
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
Gupta Classical (Chandragupta II to Kumaragupta) 320–550 CE · Gupta
Gupta’s open-air bible — 20 sandstone caves with Varaha (402 CE) and Durga, Chandragupta II's inscriptions on Udayagiri Hill.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 187–78 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga → Indo-Greek → Gupta (Malwa)
Ancient Vidisha (Besnagar) capital with Heliodorus Garuda column (113 BCE) — first Indo-Greek Krishna inscription 6.5 m monolith.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient temple
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 · Ancient city
Mauryan → Sunga–Satavahana 3rd c BCE–5th c CE · Sunga–Satavahana Vidisha — Early Historic Central India
Besnagar Vidisha Ancient City — capital of Dasharna janapada and Sunga Sungabhadra (3rd c BCE–5th c CE) on Betwa-Bes confluence 3 km north of Vidisha, excavated 1913–15 by Marshall–Lake and 1963–64…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Gupta Classical Golden Age 320–550 CE · Brahminical Hindu (Vaishnava) with Jain retain
Gupta imperial rock-cut shrine cluster (4th–5th c. CE) on Vidisha sandstone ridge, 20 caves including Cave 5 — colossal 4 m monolithic Varaha (boar) avatar rescuing Bhudevi, symbolising Gupta king…
