Correct option is A
Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Empire, established diplomatic ties with the Hellenistic kingdoms of the West, including Seleucus I Nicator, the Greek general who ruled over the region after Alexander the Great. Ashoka, after his conversion to Buddhism following the Kalinga War, maintained extensive diplomatic and cultural contacts with distant kingdoms. He is known to have sent envoys and emissaries to Hellenistic rulers like Ptolemy II of Egypt, Antiochus II of Syria, and others in the Mediterranean region.
