INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Menander: Menander was the best known representative of the Athenian New Comedy and a Greek dramatist.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara. Ashvaghosh was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India while Vasumitra was a scholar in his court who headed the 4th Buddhist Council.

Detailed explanation-3: -So correct is an option (A) Kanishka court there Ashvaghosha and Vasumitra Buddhist philosopher patronise.

Detailed explanation-4: -150 CE) was a Sarvāstivāda or Mahasanghika Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa.

Detailed explanation-5: -Among the works attributed to him are the Mahayana-shraddhotpada-shastra (“The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana”), the Buddhacarita (“The Life of Buddha”), in verse, and the Mahalankara (“Book of Glory”).