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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 53 of 200

Q53
History of IndiaPost-Mauryan Period
The Garuda Pillar at Besnagar was endowed by
  1. a.Heliodorus
  2. b.Megasthanes
  3. c.Bimbisara
  4. d.Ajatasatru

Answer: (A) Heliodorus

Heliodorus, a Greek envoy of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas of Taxila to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra, set up the Garuda pillar at Besnagar (near Vidisha) in honour of Vasudeva. His inscription calls him a Bhagavata, making it an early record of a Greek adopting Vaishnavism. Megasthenes was Seleucus's ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya, long before this. Bimbisara and Ajatashatru were Haryanka kings of Magadha with no link to this pillar.

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