Question

The literary sources for the Mauryan period include the Indika and the
a. rock edicts
b. Arthashastra
c. coins
d. pillar edicts.

Answer 1

The correct option is (b).

Explanation: Indika was written by Megasthenes, a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He was the ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra.

The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit by Chanakya.