Q. The basis, on which the chronology or period ofthe Sangam literature is fixed between the first to third century A.D., is:

• A. King Gajabahu I of Sri Lanka was contemporary of the Chera monarch Senaguttuvan
• B. Strking similarity between the Sangam poems and the Greco-Roman accounts on trade
• C. Both (a) and (b)
• D. Reference to the Chola-Chera-Pandya’ kingdoms in Ashokan edicts

Correct Answer: C