(a) Samudragupta
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Kumaragupta I
(d) Skandagupta
Ans-b
Explanation
During the reign of Chandragupta II (375 to 414 A.D), India was visited by Fa-Hien, the Chinese traveller. He came to India by land route and went back by the sea route. He spent six years in India.
His main object in coming to India was to get Buddhist books on the discipline.
Fa-Hien visited Gandhara, Takshila and Peshawar, which were full of Buddhist monuments.
In Punjab, Fa-Hien saw many Buddhist monasteries, and he estimates the number of monks there at more than 10,000.
At Mathura alone, Fa-Hien found 20 monasteries with 3,000 Buddhist monks.
He visited Shravasti, which was full of Buddhist monuments. He visited Buddhist places like Lumbini, Vaishali, Nalanda, Gaya, Bodhgaya and Rajgriha.
Fa-Hien was very much impressed by the city of Pataliputra and also the palace of Ashoka.
According to him, the palace was with various halls , constructed walls and gates, carved designs . Ashoka’s palace was still in existence at the time of Fa-Hien’s visit.
Fa-Hien ought to have seen that with the revival of Hinduism under the patronage of Gupta kings, Buddhism had gone into the background.
He also visited Ceylon and stayed there for two years. From there, he went to Java and from there back to China.
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