Kanva dynasty, also called Kanvayanas, the successors of the Shungas in the North Indian kingdom of Magadha, who ruled about 72–28 BCE.
The Puranic literature shows that the Kanva Dynasty ruled from Pataliputra, Magadha in Eastern India, the former capital of the Shunga Empire. Their coins are primarily found in and around the region of Vidisha in Central India, the capital of later Shunga rulers.
The Kanva kings were Brahmins. They were descendants of Sage Saubhari.
The defeat of the Kanva dynasty by the Satavahana dynasty was a localized event in Central India.
Numismatic and epigraphic evidence suggests that Magadha itself came under the hegemony of the Mitra dynasty of Kaushambi from the 1st century BCE until the 2nd century CE.
Thus, after a short reign of about 45 years, the Kanva dynasty disappeared from the political field of India and with them vanished the name and fame of the Magadhan empire.
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