<span>B is the correct answer. Buddhism was the dominant religion in India in 100BCE and spread to other areas of Asia, remaining strong and often becoming the main religion. There are two main branches of Buddhism: Theravada, popular in Southeast Asia, and Mahayana, popular in East Asia. Hinduism and Islam have taken over in India as the dominant religions.</span>
The world paraphrase means to make a restatement of the meaning of the texts using the words and is derived from the lain word that means as an addition
And paraphrases and typically clarifies and explains the text and does not need any direct quotation and serves the statement of the source into perspective to clarify the context in which it appears.