Pusyamitra Shunga is believed in tradition to have been hostile towards Buddhists and to have persecuted the Buddhist faith.

According to the 2nd century Ashokavadana:

“Then King Pusyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama. (…) Pusyamitra therefore destroyed the sangharama, killed the monks there, and departed.
After some time, he arrived in Sakala, and proclaimed that he would give a hundred dinara reward to whoever brought him the head of a Buddhist monk” (Shramanas) Ashokavadana, 133, trans. John Strong.
A Buddhist tradition holds him as having taken steps to check the spread of Buddhism as “the number one enemy of the sons of the Shakya’s[1] and a most cruel persecutor of the religion”.[2] The Divyavadana ascribes to him the razing of stupas and viharas built by Ashoka, and describes him as one who wanted to undo the work of Ashoka.[3]

This paragraph is a mere distraction.

Even though a 2500 year old tradition was deliberately destroyed, its greatness is such that even now it emerges victorious.

“SATYAMEVA JAYATE”