With reference to Indian history, consider the following pairs: **Historical person** **Known as** 1. Aryadeva - Jaina scholar 2. Dignaga - Buddhist scholar 3. Nathamuni - Vaishnava scholar How many pairs given above are correctly matched?
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A. None of the pairs
B. Only one pair
C. Only two pairs
D. All three pairs
Answer: Only two pairs
Option c is the correct answer.
Pair 1 is incorrect: Āryadeva (3rd century), a disciple of Nāgārjuna, is a central figure in the development of early
Indian Madhyamaka philosophy.TheMadhyamakaschool of Buddhism, the followers of which are called Mādhyamikas, was one of the two principal schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism Pair 2 is correct: Dignāga, (born c. 480 CE-died c. 540), was a Buddhist logician and author of the Pramānasamuccaya ("Compendium of the Means of True Knowledge"), a work that laid the foundations of Buddhist logic. Pair 3 is correct: Nathamuni founded aSanskrit-Tamil school at Srirangam (Tamil Nadu state), which continues to be a great Vaishnavite centre in South India.