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Mauryan Period

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Who deciphered the Brahmi Script of Ashokan rock edicts in 1837

  • Nihar Ranjan Roy
  • James Princep
  • Romila Thapar
  • R S Sharma
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The Buddhist Ceylonese chronicles, Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa helped in identifying Piyadassi as which King?

  • Devavarman
  • Chandragupta Maurya
  • Bindusara
  • Ashok
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The name of Governor of Chandragupta Maurya who constructed the famous Sudarshan Lake in the middle of Girnar hills in Kathiawad region is:

  • Pushyagupta Vaishya
  • Dasaratha
  • Salisuka
  • Apararantaka
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The name of governor of Ashok who repaired the famous Sudarshan Lake is:

  • Satadhanvan
  • Yonaraj Tusaspa
  • Kunala
  • Samprati
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Parisisthaparvan is composed by

  • Megasthenese
  • Salisuka
  • Androcottas
  • Hemchandra
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Parisisthaparvan is a biography of

  • Chanakya
  • Ashoka
  • Bindusara
  • Chandragupta Maurya
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Mudrarakshasa a drama is written in Sanskrit by

  • Kshemendra
  • Somadeva
  • Vishakhadatta
  • Kalhana
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Rajtrangini is composed by

  • Somadeva
  • Kalhana
  • Strabo
  • Rudradaman
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Brihatkathamanjari is written by

  • Pushyagupta
  • Androcottas
  • Hemachandra
  • Kshemendra
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Who mentions Chandragupta as Androcottas and states that Chandragupta had met Alexander

  • Strabo
  • Megasthenese
  • Pliny
  • Plutarch
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