Question
Download Solution PDFFa Xian began his journey back home from which of the following Indian state?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Bengal.
Key Points
- Fa Xian boarded a ship owned by some merchants to start his voyage back home from Bengal.
- Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who walked on foot from China to India in search of Buddhist literature.
- He was also known by the names Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien, and Sehi.
- Between 399 and 412 CE, he began his gruelling journey at the age of roughly 60, visiting holy Buddhist places in Central, South, and Southeast Asia, with 10 of those years spent in India.
Additional Information
- Bihar
- Eastern India contains the state of Bihar.
- It is the second most populous state in terms of people in 2019, has the 12th-largest size (94,163 km2) and the 14th-largest GDP in 2021.
- Bihar shares borders with Jharkhand to the south, Uttar Pradesh to the west, Nepal to the north, and the northern portion of West Bengal to the east.
- The Ganges River, which runs from west to east, divides the Bihar plain.
- Maharashtra
- Maharashtra is a state in western India's peninsula that takes up a sizable chunk of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the second-most populous country subdivision in the world as well as the second-most populous state in India.
- The bilingual Bombay State, which had been in existence since 1956, was divided on May 1 to create the majority-Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and the majority-Gujarati-speaking Gujarat.
- Odisha
- Eastern India is home to the Indian state of Odisha. By area, it is the eighth-largest state, and by population, it is the eleventh-largest. The number of scheduled tribes in the state is the third highest in all of India.
- It shares borders with the states of Andhra Pradesh to the south, Jharkhand to the north, West Bengal to the northeast, and Chhattisgarh to the west. Odisha's coastline stretches for 485 kilometres (301 mi) along the Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal.
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