The debate surrounding Pushyamitra Shunga's alleged persecution of Buddhists is primarily based on the contradiction between which of the following sources?

Options:

• A: The accounts of Roman historians like Strabo versus the local oral traditions of Magadha.
• B: The secular descriptions in Kalidasa's Malavikagnimitram versus the religious decrees found in the Ashoka pillars.
• C: The epigraphic records of the Hathigumpha inscription versus the accounts of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang.
• D: The hostile accounts in Buddhist texts like the Divyavadana and Aryamanjushrimulakalpa versus the archaeological evidence of Shunga-era patronage and reconstruction at Sanchi and Bharhut.

Related Practice Questions:

• Let $S_1$ and $S_2$ be two disjoint, non-empty convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Under which of the following conditions is there guaranteed to exist a hyperplane that strictly separates $S_1$ and $S_2$?
• Let the primal linear programming problem be: Maximize $Z = c^T x$ subject to $Ax \le b, x \ge 0$. If this primal problem has an unbounded optimal objective value, then which of the following statements is always true regarding its dual problem?
• Let $S = \{(x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^2 \mid x^2 + y^2 \le 9\}$ be a convex set in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The set of all extreme points of $S$ is given by:
• In a linear programming problem with $3$ independent equality constraints and $5$ variables (including slack/surplus variables), what is the maximum possible number of basic solutions?