Medieval India Test - 12

Megasthenes (born c. 350 BC; died c. 290 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat. He was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. He described India in his book ''Indika'', which is now lost but has been partially reconstructed from the writings of the later authors.

Pliny the Elder (23 AD-79 AD) was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He described India as a sink of gold.

Claudius Ptolemy (100 AD-170 AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He wrote about the geography of India.

Fahien (337 AD-422 AD) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who travelled by foot from Ancient China to Ancient India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts.

His journey is described in his important travelogue ''A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fahien of his Travels in India.''

"Satyameva Jayate" is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad. Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto of India on 26^th January, 1950.

Baburnama is an autobiography of Mughal emperor Babur. It was written in Chagatai Turkic, which was Babur's mother tongue.

Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri is the autobiography of Mughal emperor Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir.

The Ain-i-Akbari or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 15^th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abul Fazal in the Persian language.

The Harshacharita is the biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India. He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha.

Hence, we find that Harsha and Harshacharita are incorrectly matched.

Geet Govinda is a work of Jayadeva of the 12^th century. It is depiction of relation between Krishna, Radha and other Gopis in the Vrindavan. It has 12 chapters further divided into 24 parts.

Kautilya, also known as Chanakya, was believed to be the Chief Minister in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. He is considered to be the author of the Arthashastra, meaning a text on wealth. The Arthashastra is a primeval Indian discourse, in which he argues the case for a fully centralised government for the empire and deals with problems of administration as well as laws of property and crime. It is written in Sanskrit.