gupta & post gupta period quiz set 4 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Kumaradevi, a queen of Govindachandra Gahadavala, constructed Dharmachakra-Jina Vihara at Sarnath.

Monastery lying 232 m from east to west and occupied by a central block of buildings, Dharmachakra Jina Vihara was the gift of Kumaradevi, the Buddhist queen of the great Gahadavala king Govindrachandra of Kashi (CE 1114-1154). All the halls and apartments of the monks have disappeared.

Answer: (a)

Sugandhadevi who issued coins with the figure of seated Lakshmi was a queen of Kashmir.

The auspicious markings on Srimati Radharani’s lotus feet include the signs of the conch shell, moon, elephant, barleycorn, rod for controlling elephants, chariot flag, small drum, svastika and fish.

Answer: (b)

Brahmagupta declared the ‘Law of Gravity’ long before Newton’s Law. The great 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta wrote some important works on both mathematics and astronomy.

He was from the state of Rajasthan of northwest India (he is often referred to as Bhillamalacharya, the teacher from Bhillamala), and later became the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain in central India.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

Sanskrit was the official language of the Gupta period. Scholars of this period includeVarahamihira and Aryabhatta, who is believed to be the first to come up with the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses.

Kalidasa, who was a great playwright, who wrote plays such as Shakuntala, which is said to have inspired Goethe, and marked the highest point of Sanskrit literature is also said to have belonged to this period.

Answer: (a)

The evidence of water tax is provided by the inscriptions of Gahadavalas The Gahadavalas occupy a very important place in Indian history. They ruled for over a century (AD 1089-1097), over a vast region of North India, which extended from the western bank of Yamuna in the west to Patna, Monghyr and Bodhgaya in Bihar in the east.

It extended from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to Baghelkhanda in Madhya Pradesh in the south.