History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET January 2017 History
Who visited the court of Bindusara as an envoy of the Syrian emperor?
AClaudius
BDeimachus ✓ Correct
CDiodorus
DDionysus
Correct answer: (B) Deimachus — Deimachus visited the court of Bindusara, so the answer is Deimachus.
Explanation
★Deimachus visited the court of Bindusara, so the answer is Deimachus.
★He came as an envoy of the Syrian emperor Antiochus I.
★He stayed at the Mauryan court of Bindusara.
★He followed Megasthenes, who had come in the time of Chandragupta Maurya.
★Dionysus, by contrast, was the envoy of the king of Egypt.
★So the envoy of the Syrian emperor to Bindusara was Deimachus.
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