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| Q. |
Who among the following foreigners was the first to visit India? |
| A. | Hiuen Tsang |
| B. | Magasthenese |
| C. | I-Tsing |
| D. | Fahien |
| Answer» B. Magasthenese | |
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Explanation: Megasthenes was a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India. Scholars place it before 298 BC, the date of Chandragupta's death. Hiuen Tsang came during the reign of Harshavardhana; while I Tsing and Fa Hien came during the Gupta times. |
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