"Indica" which is an account of Mauryan India was authored by

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Indica is written by Megasthenes.

Megasthenes stayed in the Mauryan Capital Pataliputra for five years.
Whatever he saw during that time in India is given in detail in this book.
From this book, we came to know about Chandragupta Maurya's Palace, capital, military organization, town planning, and Indian society.

Additional Information

Fa-Hein was the first traveler who visited India from China.
- He studied the Sanskrit language for about three years in the city of Patliputra.
- He has written about the culture of Buddhism in India and the Gupta Empire in his book ‘Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms'.
- Fa-Hien wrote about India in his book Fo-kwo-ki (Travels of Fa-hien).
During the reign of Harshvardhana who was a member of the Vardhana dynasty, the famous Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsang came to India.
- He was a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, translator, and traveler who came to India in the seventh century.
- The “Great Tang Records on the Western Regions” is a book written by him which describes his travels that took place between the years 626 and 645.
- During his journey, he visited many sacred Buddhist sites of Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.