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| predecessor = [[Toramana]]
| successor = [[Toramana II]]<br>[[Sri Pravarasena|Pravarasena]]
| religion = [[Shaivism
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[[File:India 500 AD.jpg|thumb|265px|The extent of Mihirakula and his father's empire is unclear. Above is a map based on a Gwalior inscription. It re-constructs Alchon Hun empire {{Circa|500 AD}}, with its capital of Balkh near Oxus river.]]
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'''Mihirakula''' ([[Gupta script]]: <sup>[[File:Gupta allahabad mi.jpg|14px]][[File:Gupta ashoka hi.jpg|18px]]</sup>[[File:Gupta allahabad r.svg|12px]]<sub>[[File:Gupta allahabad ku.jpg|16px]]</sub>[[File:Gupta allahabad l.svg|14px]], ''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 Huns|Alchon Hun]] king of northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent between 502 and 530 CE.<ref name=Rene>{{citation |last=Grousset |first=Rene |title=The Empire of the Steppes |publisher=Rutgers University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppesh00prof/page/71 |year=1970 |isbn=0-8135-1304-9 |pages=71–72 }}</ref> He was a son of and successor to [[Toramana]] of [[Huna people|Huna]] heritage. His father ruled the Indian part of the [[Hephthalite Empire]]. Mihirakula ruled from his capital of [[Sagala]] (modern-day [[Sialkot]], [[Pakistan]]).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p2XCgAAQBAJ&q=sialkot+xuanzang&pg=PA113|title=The World of the Skandapurāṇa|last=Bakker|first=Hans|date=2014-07-16|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004277144|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcKtIPVQ6REC&q=mihirakula+sialkot&pg=PA142|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750|last=Dani|first=Ahmad Hasan|date=1999|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=9788120815407|language=en}}</ref>
In around 520 CE, the Chinese monk [[Song Yun]] met with Mihirakula.<ref name=Rene/> 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
The Buddhist texts record Mihirakula as extremely cruel and bad mannered,<ref name=britmihirkula/><ref name=Rene/><ref name=kurt>{{cite book|last1=Behrendt|first1=Kurt A.|title=Handbuch der Orientalistik|date=2004 |publisher=BRILL|isbn= 9789004135956}}</ref> the one who destroyed Buddhist sites, ruined monasteries, killed monks.<ref>{{Cite book|last=A. L. Basham|url=https://archive.org/details/wonderthatwasind00alba|title=The Wonder That Was India|date=1967|others=Public Resource}}</ref> The [[Hindu
==Etymology==
The name "Mihirakula" is
In Sanskrit, Mihir Kula would mean-(of)The [[Solar dynasty|Sun's clan]], as Mihira means the "Sun" in Sanskrit.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Journal, Volume 30 |last=Society |first=Asiatic |date=1862 |language=English |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzQzAQAAMAAJ&q=mihirakula+word |page=277}}</ref>
==Description==
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According to Xuanzang's travelogue, despite Mihirakula destructive campaign during his rule, thousands of monasteries of different Buddhist schools – both Hinayana and Mahayana, as well as monks and scholars were thriving in northwestern regions of the subcontinent when he visited (629–645 CE), including the countries of Udyana, Balura, Taksasila, Gandhara, Kashmira and Rajapura. He studied for months in several of these places, and two years in a Kashmira monastery.<ref>Li Rongxi (1996), ''The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions'', Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai and Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Berkeley, pp. 71–96</ref>{{Sfn|Yung-hsi|1959|p=57–72}} Even in the 6th-century capital [[Sagala]] of Mihirakula, Xuanzang's 7th-century travelogue states that there is a monastery with more than hundred monks studying Hinayana Buddhism, along with a 200 feet high stupa next to it (compare [[Guanyin of Mount Xiqiao]]). Around the capital, to its northwest and northeast, he describes some ruins as well as several other major ancient stupas from Ashoka's era, all over 200 feet.<ref name=rongxi97/>
As per archeological findings, the [[Greco-Buddhist art]] disappeared after this period. The period followed a revival of
===Cosmas Indicopleustes===
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===Mandasor Pillar Inscriptions of Yasodharman===
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In 528 Mihirakula suffered a defeat in the [[Battle of Sondani]] by the Aulikara dynasty
==Critical studies==
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