Megasthenes' original record about India is lost. Some of his memories are preserved in the accounts of which of the following?

(a) Arrian

(b) Diodoras

(c) Heliodoras

(d) Herodotus

Choose the correct option:

Megasthenes (Greek writer) compiled his account about Mauryan India in Indica. The original record about India is now lost, but extensive quotations from it survive in the works of the later Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus, and Arrian.

Extra Info-

Heliodoras

• Heliodorus was a Greek ambassador to India in the second century B.C.
• A Brahmi inscription engraved on a Garuda pillar found at Besnagar near Bhilsa records that Antialcidas sent an ambassador named Heliodorous, to the court of Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, identified with the Sunga king Bhagvata. Heliodorous is described as a Bhagavata (worshipper of Krishna or Vasudeva) in this inscription.

Herodotus

• Herodotus of Halicarnassus is commonly referred to as “the father of history,”. Herodotus’s History is an account of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–479 BCE) and the story of the growth and organization of the Persian empire.