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Name the Chinese traveler who visited Kancheepuram in seventh century AD(CE).
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Solution
- Hieun Tsang who visited Kanchipuram in the seventh century A.D. (CE).
- There he noticed the presence of 100 feet stupa built by Ashoka.
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