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

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  1. Megasthenes
  2. Fa-hien
  3. Hiuen-Tsang
  4. None of these

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Option 1 : Megasthenes
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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.

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  • 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.
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