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The Greek historian Megasthenes visited India during the reign of which Indian ruler?
1. Samudragupta
2. Chandragupta Maurya
3. Bindusa
4. Ashoka

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Correct Answer - Option 2 : Chandragupta Maurya

The correct answer is Chandragupta Maurya.

  • The Greek historian Megasthenes visited India during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya.

  • Megasthenes visited India sometime between circa 302 BCE and 288 BCE.
  • Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, and Indian ethnographer.
  • He was an ambassador of Seleucus Nicator I, in the court of Chandragupta Maurya.
  • Megasthenes compiled information about India in the book Indika/Indica, which is now a lost work and only survives in quotes quoted by later writers in their books.

  • Samudragupta-
    • He was the son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I.
    • He is best known as the Napoleon of India. 
  • Bindusara-
    • He was the second Mauryan emperor of India and the father of Ashoka. 
  • Ashoka-
    • He was the third king of the Mauryan Empire.
    • He promoted the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia. 
    • He converted to Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War. 

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