Arrange the following events in chronological sequence:
(A) Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang comes in search of Buddhist texts
(B) Beginning of Gupta rule
(C) Accession of Kanishka
(D) End of the Mauryan empire
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (D), (C), (B), (A)
(D) End of the Mauryan empire — c. 185 BCE, about fifty years after the death of Asoka.
(C) Accession of Kanishka — c. 78 CE (the date is not certain). Kanishka was the best-known ruler of the Kushanas, who ruled from Central Asia to north-west India.
(B) Beginning of Gupta rule — c. 320 CE, followed by Samudragupta (c. 335-375 CE) and Chandragupta II.
(A) Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang comes in search of Buddhist texts — c. 606-647 CE, in the time of Harshavardhana, the king of Kanauj.
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