ANSWER: A. Seleucus I Nicator
SOLUTION : Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator in the court of Chandragupta Maurya.

ANSWER: B. Jainism
SOLUTION: Chandragupta Maurya was an ardent follower of Jainism. He was the founder of Mauryan dynasty and grandfather of Ashoka, the Great. According to Jain texts, he followed Jain religion and migrated to Shravanabelagola in south India, where he starved himself to death.

ANSWER : A. Bhadrabahu
SOLUTION:Bindusara had an inclination towards Ajivika sect and Chandragupta Maurya converted to Jainism in the later half of his life under the guidance of his spiritual teacher Bhadrabahu.

ANSWER:B. Vishakhadatta
SOLUTION:Vishakhadatta was an Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright. Although Vishakhadatta furnishes the names of his father and grandfather as Maharaja Bhaskaradatta and Maharaja Vateshvaradatta in his political drama Mudrārākṣasa, we know little else about him.

ANSWER: A. Kautilya
SOLUTION:Arthashastra is an Indian Sanskrit book on statecraft, which was written by the famous philosopher, Chanakya. also known as Kautilya.

ANSWER: B. Chanakya
SOLUTION: Kautilya was also known as Chanakya or Vishnugupta. He was the Prime Minister under the reign of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Empire. He was a statesman and philosopher who wrote a classic treatise on polity, Arthashastra.

ANSWER: D. Chandragupta Maurya
SOLUTION: In Arthashastra, there is much criticism of the opinions of earlier teachers, followed by Kautilya’s own opinion. reign of the first Maurya king, Chandragupta Maurya (321-297 BCE).

ANSWER: B. Chanakya
SOLUTION: Chanakya was the teacher of Chandragupta Maurya. It was Chanakya who took Chandragupta Maurya to the University of Taxila.

ANSWER: D. Bindusara
SOLUTION: Bindusara was the son of the dynasty’s founder Chandragupta and the father of its most famous ruler Ashoka. His life is not documented as well as the lives of these two emperors. Much of the information about him comes from legendary accounts written several hundred years after his death.

ANSWER: C. Bindusara
SOLUTION:Bindusara, conjointly referred to as Bindusara Maurya, Greek Amitrochates, second Mauryan emperor, who ascended the throne concerning 297 BCE. Greek sources see him as Amitrochates, Greek for the Sanskrit amitraghata (“destroyer of foes”).