Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding the foreign accounts on ancient Indian history?
A. Megasthenese in his "Histories" gives us much information about Indo-Persian relations.
B. Arrian wrote a detailed account of the invasion of India by Alexander on the basis of information from those who accompanied the campaign.
C. An anonymous author, who was a Greek, settled in Egypt wrote a book Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, on the basis of his personal voyage of Indian coast in about A.D.80.
D. Ptolemy wrote a geographical treatise on India in the second century A.D.
Answer:A
Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding the foreign accounts on ancient Indian history?
A. Megasthenese in his "Histories" gives us much information about Indo-Persian relations. B. Arrian wrote a detailed account of the invasion of India by Alexander on the basis of information from those who accompanied the campaign. C. An anonymous author, who was a Greek, settled in Egypt wrote a book Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, on the basis of his personal voyage of Indian coast in about A.D.80. D. Ptolemy wrote a geographical treatise on India in the second century A.D.
Explanation: India figures in the foreign inscriptions like in those of Darius. Herodotus and Ctesian got their information through the Persian sources. Herodotus in his "Histories" gives us much information about Indo-Persian relations. Arrian wrote a detailed account of the invasion of India by Alexander on the basis of information from those who accompanied the campaign. Ambassadors were sent to Patliputra by Greek kings. Some of them were Megasthenese, Deimachus and Dionysios. Megasthenese was in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. He wrote a book on India called Indica.