Q.

The Greek ambassador sent to Chandragupta Maurya's Court was:

A. Kautilya
B. Seleucus Nicator
C. Megasthenes
D. Justin
Answer» C. Megasthenes
Explanation: Megasthenes was a Greek ethnographer and plorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra. Megasthenes' Indica is the first well known Western account of Indía and he is regarded as one of the founders of the study ofIndian history in the West. He is also the first foreigner Ambassador to be mentioned in the Indian history.
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