Which of the following does not represent an important source material for the Mauryan period?

A Literary works
B Foreign accounts
C Numismatic evidence
D Epigraphic sources

Correct Answer: Numismatic evidence

Numismatic evidence indicates that they controlled territory in the subcontinent until the beginning of the Common Era. The Scythian tribes, renamed Indo-Scythians, brought about the demise of the Indo-Greeks in 70 B.C.E., seizing the region of Mathura, and Gujarat.
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