Introduction
Shalishuka was a later Maurya ruler named in the Puranic king-lists as part of the dynasty's declining phase, with little independent narrative detail surviving about the specifics of his reign.
Family
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A Name in a Declining King-List
Like several other later Maurya rulers, Shalishuka's presence in the historical record rests almost entirely on his inclusion in the Puranic king-lists rather than on any surviving inscriptions, coinage, or independent narrative sources of his own — a pattern reflecting the empire's shrinking central authority and correspondingly thinner documentary footprint in this later period.
This article records the Maurya Empire (c. 4th-2nd century BCE) as historical genealogy reconstructed from Ashoka's own rock and pillar edicts, Greek and Latin accounts of contact with the Mauryas, and later Buddhist, Jain and Puranic traditions composed well after the events they describe; where these traditions genuinely disagree, that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into invented certainty.