With reference to the history of India, consider the following pairs:Famous PlacePresent StateBhilsa

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With reference to the history of India, consider the following pairs:Famous PlacePresent StateBhilsaMadhya PradeshDwarasamudraMaharashtraGirinagarGujaratSthanesvaraUttar PradeshWhich of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

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Vidhisha is an ancient city in Madhya Pradesh state in India. It is also the administrative capital of the district with the same name. It was known as Besnagar in ancient times. Vidhisha city was known as Bhelsa during the Medieval period.Heliodorus Pillar is a 20 feet and 7 inches tall stone column, believed to be erected by the Greek ambassador of King Antialcidas, the Indo-Greek King of ancient times. It is located on the northern banks of River Vais. The inscriptions on this stone pillar tell us that it was built to pay homage to Lord Vishnu.Emperor Ashoka the Great of the Maurya Dynasty served as the governor of Vidisha during his father’s regime. The Shunga dynasty was established by Pushyamitra Shunga, after the fall of the Maurya Empire. Its capital was Pataliputra, but later emperors such as Bhagabhadra also held court at Besnagar (modern Vidisha) in eastern Malwa.The Hoysala empire ruled a large part of modern-day Karnataka and parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu from the 10th to the 14th century. The Hoysalas had their capital at Dwarasamudra, the modern Halebidu in Belur Taluk.Girinar is one of the most ancient 22nd Jain Tirthankar Lord Neminath prabhu kshetras in India. Lord Neminath performed penance and salvation at the top of the hill. People have to climb 10,000 (ten thousand) steps to have Lord Neminath paduka darshan. The group temples of Jainism are situated on the Mount Girnar situated near Junagadh in Junagadh district, Gujarat, India. These temples are sacred to the Digambara and the Svetambara branches of Jainism. Girnar, also known as Girinagar ('city-on-the-hill') or Revatak Parvata, is a group of mountains in the Junagadh District of Gujarat, India.Thanesar (sometimes called Thaneswar and, archaically, Sthanishvara) is a historic town and an important Hindu pilgrimage centre on the banks of the Saraswati River in the state of Haryana in northern India. Prabhakarvardhana was a ruler of Thanesar in the early seventh-century CE and was succeeded by his sons, Rajyavardhana and Harshavardhana.