INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator in the court of King Chandragupta Maurya. Seleucus I, the Hellenistic king, sent Megasthenes as an ambassador to the court of King Chandragupta Maurya in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dionysius (Ancient Greek: ) was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent by Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt as ambassador to the court of the Maurya Empire, in the reign of either Bindusara or Ashoka.

Detailed explanation-3: -Megasthenes was the Greek ambassador in Chandragupta’s court. He was a historian and an Indian ethnographer. He had written a book called Indica, which contained a lot of information about India in his time period.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seleucus appointed Megasthenes as an ambassador to the Mauryan court at Pataliputra.