Arrange the following major textual traditions in a chronological order:
(A) Works of Kalidasa
(B) Compilation of Puranas
(C) Early Buddhist texts including the Tripitaka
(D) Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (C), (D), (B), (A)
(C) Early Buddhist texts including the Tripitaka — c. 500-100 BCE. These texts were in Pali.
(D) Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas — c. 100 CE. These were works on medicine, written in Sanskrit.
(B) Compilation of Puranas — c. 200 CE onwards, in Sanskrit.
(A) Works of Kalidasa — c. 400-500 CE. Kalidasa’s Sanskrit plays belong to the same period as the works on astronomy and mathematics by Aryabhata and Varahamihira.
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