Who among the following visited India during the reign of Harshavardhana?

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RRB NTPC CBT 2 (Level-3) Official Paper (Held On: 17 June 2022 Shift 1)

Answer 1

Correct answer is Xuan Zang (Hsuan Tsang).

Key Points

Hiuen-Tsang visited India during Harshavardhana's rules.
Huen Tsang or Xuanzang was a Chinese Buddhist Traveler who belongs to the early Tang times of China.
He studied in Nalanda University.
During his stay in India, he visited various places of northern and southern India.

Additional Information

Fa Hien visited India in the early fifth century during the reign of Chandragupta II and entered here from the northwest and reached Pataliputra.
Marco Polo landed on the Coromandel Coast of India in AD 1292 after a two-year trip by sea across the Indian Ocean on his way home from China.
Ibn Battuta, was a Berber Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia.