Mihirakula

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Mihirakula (Gupta script: , Mi-hi-ra-ku-la, Chinese: 摩酰逻矩罗 Mo-hi-lo-kiu-lo), sometimes referred to as Mihiragula or Mahiragula, was the second and last Alchon Hun king in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent from 515 to 542. He was a son of and successor to Toramana. The Aulikara king Yashodharman and Gupta emperor Narasimhagupta, between 525 and 532 CE, likely by 530 CE, reversed Mihirakula's campaign in the Battle of Sondani and ended the Mihirakula era. In around 520 CE, the Chinese Buddhist monk Song Yun met with Mihirakula. According to the 7th-century travelogue of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim and student Xuanzang, Mihirakula ruled several hundreds of years before his visit, was initially interested in Buddhism, and sought a Buddhist teacher from monasteries in his domain. They did not send him a learned Buddhist scholar. Feeling insulted, he became anti-Buddhist and destroyed the monasteries in his kingdom. Mihirakula is known to have patronized the Shaivism tradition...

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