Name the traveller whose account compared the betel as a tree which is cultivated in the same manner as the grape-vine.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, describing the paan for readers who had never seen it, wrote: “The betel is a tree which is cultivated in the same manner as the grape-vine”.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.1 The coconut and the paan … Some of the best examples of Ibn Battuta’s strategies of representation are evident in the ways in which he described the coconut and the paan, two kinds of plant produce that were completely unfamiliar to his audience.…”
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