Ques:Information:  - Cassius Dio or Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian of Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of history on Ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the subsequent founding of Rome (753 BC), the formation of the Republic (509 BC), and the creation of the Empire (31 BC), up until 229 AD. Written in Ancient Greek over 22 years, Dio's work covers approximately 1,000 years of history. Many of his 80 books have survived intact, or as fragments, providing modern scholars with a detailed perspective on Roman history.  - Aelius Herodianus ( Greek :   ) or Herodian ( fl . 2nd century CE ) was one of the most celebrated grammarians of Greco - Roman antiquity . He is usually known as Herodian except when there is a danger of confusion with the historian also named Herodian . He was the son of Apollonius Dyscolus and was born in Alexandria . From there he seems to have moved to Rome , where he gained the favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius , to whom he dedicated a work on prosody .  - Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus (203  March 11, 222), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus. Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was called Elagabalus only after his death.  - Herodian or Herodianus of Syria, sometimes referred to as "Herodian of Antioch" (c. 170  c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled "History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus" (    ) in eight books covering the years 180 to 238. His work is not entirely reliable although his relatively unbiased account of Elagabalus is more useful than that of Cassius Dio. He was a Greek (perhaps from Antioch) who appears to have lived for a considerable period of time in Rome, but possibly without holding any public office. From his extant work, we gather that he was still living at an advanced age during the reign of Gordianus III, who ascended the throne in 238. Beyond this, nothing is known of his life.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'aelius herodianus' exhibits the relationship of 'date of birth'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - 11  - 170  - 180  - 203  - 218  - 22  - 240  - 31  - 80

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Ques:Information:  - Devavarman (or Devadharman) was a king of the Maurya Empire. He ruled in the period 202195 BCE. According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Shalishuka Maurya and reigned for seven years. He was succeeded by Shatadhanvan.  - Shalishuka ( IAST : liuka ) Maurya was a ruler of the Indian Maurya dynasty . He ruled from 215 -- 202 BCE . He was the successor of Samprati Maurya . While Yuga Purana section of the Gargi Samhita mentions him as quarrelsome , unrighteous ruler , he is also called as being of `` righteous words '' but `` unrighteous conduct '' due to his patronage of Jainism . According to the Puranas he was succeeded by Devavarman .  - The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between and 185 BCE. Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra (modern Patna). The empire was the largest to have ever existed in the Indian subcontinent, spanning over 5 million square kilometres at its zenith under Ashoka.  - Samprati was an emperor of Maurya dynasty. He was the son of Ashoka's blind son, Kunala, and succeeded his cousin, Dasharatha, as emperor of the Maurya Empire.  - Shatadhanvan or Shatadhanus was a king of the Maurya dynasty. He ruled from 195187 BCE. According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Devavarman Maurya and reigned for eight years. During his time, the empire lost some of its territories because of invasions. He was succeeded by Brihadratha Maurya.  - Ashoka (died 232 BCE) was an ancient Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from to 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the modern state of Bangladesh in the east. It covered the entire Indian subcontinent except parts of present-day Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. The empire's capital was Pataliputra (in Magadha, present-day Patna), with provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'shalishuka' exhibits the relationship of 'head of state'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - king  - magadha  - maurya empire

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maurya empire
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