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Vaital Deul, the Odishan temples, has a Shikhar of Dravidian style.Vaital Deul temple is a eight century temple situated near Bindu Sarovar where main deity is Chamunda, the Tantric form of goddess Durga.

Kalidasa flourished in the time of Chandragupta II (reigned 380–413). A traditional Indian view would have it that he adorned Vikramaditya’s court in the 1st century BC. Although he was especially fond of the Gupta capital city, Ujjain (about 30 miles north of Indore in west-central India), there is no proof that he was born there.

Kalidasa was a devotee of Shiva, but there is no trace.

As mentioned by Hiuen Tsang, 10,000 students were studying in the Nalanda University. Founded in the 5th Century AD, Nalanda is known as the ancient seat of learning. 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students from all over the Buddhist world lived and studied at Nalanda, the first Residential International University of the World.

A walk in the ruins of the university takes you to an era, that saw India leading in imparting knowledge, to the world – the era when India was a coveted place for studies. The University flourished during the 5th and 12th century.

Gautam was the founder of Nyaya Darshan. The system is based on Nyaya Sutras of Gautam who is supposed to have lived around 3rd BC. This system investigates into both physical and metaphysical subjects by the syllogistic method.

Thus, it includes metaphysics as well as the science of logic.

The correct match list of dynasty and states is: Dynasty State Kadamba Karnataka Kharvela Odisha Chalukya Gujarat Pala Bengal The Kadamba Dynasty (345 – 525 CE) was a primaeval majestic dynasty of Karnataka that ruled from Vaijayanti or Banavasi in present day Uttara Kannada district.

The decline of the Satavahana power in the Deccan was followed by the rule of many lesser dynasties like the Chutes, the Abhiras and the Ikshvakus. During the third century AD the Karnataka area, however, emerged out of this political confusion in the following century. Kharavela (193 BCE – after 170 BCE) was the third and greatest emperor of the Mahameghavahana dynasty of Kalinga (present-day Odisha).

The main source of information about Kharavela is his famous seventeen lines rock-cut Hathigumpha inscription in a cave in the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The Chalukya dynasty was a powerful Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th century CE.

Pala dynasty, ruling dynasty in Bihar and Bengal, India, from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Its founder, Gopala, was a local chieftain who rose to power in the mid-8th century during a period of anarchy.

During the Gupta Period, gold coins were called Dinaras.

The silver coins issued by the Guptas were called Rupaka.

The correct match list of author and their works are:

(The Little Clay Cart) is unquestionably a masterpiece in the realm of ancient Sanskrit drama. If we expect literature of the time to faithfully represent the age, then The Little Clay Cart has achieved this criterion more than any other plays of ancient Sanskrit tradition.

The Mudrarakshasa (“Signet Ring of the Rakshasa, the chief minister of the last Nanda king”), a historical play in Sanskrit by Visakhadatta (4th century CE) narrates the ascent of the king Chandragupta Maurya to power in Northern India with the aid of Chanakya, his Guru and chief minister. Vikramovasiya (Urvasi Won Through Valor) is based on the old legend of the love of the mortal Pururavaas for the heavenly damsel Urvasi.

Uttara Ramacharita (The story of Rama's later life), depicts Rama's coronation, the abandonment of Sita, and their reunion.