Vidisha (Besnagar) through time

Now Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh

Theme 8a · 187 to 28 BCE
Post Mauryan north India: Shungas, Kanvas and Kharavela
Agnimitra's seat and a major inland trade centre; the Heliodorus pillar at Besnagar, the earliest datable evidence of the Bhagavata tradition outside purely Indian sources