Question

Answer the questions correctly :-

1. Who was Megasthenes

2. What is dharma?

3. Give any two values taught under dharma.

4. Who were dharma mahamatras?

5. What is Prakrit?

6. Who administered Pataliputra?

7. List the important Mauryan trade centres.

8. Who lived in the monasteries?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indika, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors

Answer 2

Answer:

Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador in Chandragupta's Court.

2.Dharma is religious and moral law

3.Two values of dharma are showing honesty and being virtuous.

4.Dharma mahamatras were special officers appointed by emperor ashoka

5.Indo Aryan languages were commonly known as prakit

6.Pataliputra was administered by a city council consisting of 30 members

7.Taxila,Ujjain and Mathura

8

Buddhist monks lived in monasteries