Choose the incorrect statement with regard to ‘Sudarshana Lake’:

The correct answer is Option (2) → The Sudarshana lake was a natural reservoir

Option (1) The Sudarshana lake was built by a local governor during the rule of the Mauryas — Correct. A rock inscription at Girnar in Gujarat says that the lake, with its embankments and water channels, was built by a local governor under the Mauryas.

Option (2) The Sudarshana lake was a natural reservoir — Incorrect. The Sudarshana lake was an artificial reservoir, made by people for irrigation. Its man-made embankments are the reason a storm could break them and rulers had to repair it.

Option (3) The Sudarshana lake was repaired by Rudradaman and later by one of the rulers of the Gupta dynasty — Correct. When a terrible storm broke the embankments, the Shaka ruler Rudradaman claimed to have repaired the lake from his own resources, without taxing his subjects. Another inscription on the same rock (c. fifth century) says that a Gupta ruler repaired it once again.

Option (4) The information about Sudarshana Lake is available in a second-century CE rock inscription — Correct. The story comes from a Sanskrit rock inscription of about the second century CE, composed to record the achievements of Rudradaman.