gupta & post gupta period quiz set 5 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Gupta period marks the beginning of the Indian temple architecture. The Gupta temple was a “shikara” type of temple, built in a straight-edged pyramid shape, but this cannot be fully established by existing evidence.

However, the supporting features of copings and amalakas (a bulbous stone finial), support the theory that a shikara existed as part of the main shrine.

Answer: (a)

In the Gupta inscription, Samudragupta has been called ‘Lichchhavi Dauhitra”. There is also evidence of a relationship between the early Guptas and the Lichchhavis.

Chandragupta I married the Lichchhavi princess Kumaradevi, for which reason their son Samudragupta has been called Lichchhavi – duhitra.

It is further indicated by some gold coins which, on the obverse, bear their figures and names and, on the reverse, the name of the Lichchhavis.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (a)

Vatsyayan was the author of Kamasutra. Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into seven parts.

Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. Keay says that the Kamasutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.

Answer: (b)

Abhigyanashakuntalam contains the description of the king Dushyant of Hastinapur. Abhigynanasakuntalam is a beautiful tale of love and romance, the name literally meaning ‘Of Sakuntala who is recognized by a token’.

Written by one of the greatest poets of India, Sakuntalam is synonymous with its author, Kalidasa. Abhigynanasakuntalam is the first Indian play ever to be translated into western languages. It is for the very first time translated in the English language by Sir William Jones in the year 1789.

Later to this, there were at least 46 translations of this play by Kalidasa in 12 different European languages.

Answer: (c)

Chandragupta II gave his daughter Prabhavati in marriage to the Vakataka prince Rudrasena II. The political importance of this marriage lies in the fact that the Vakatakas occupied a geographically strategic position in the Deccan.

This alliance served a useful purpose when Chandragupta-II undertook his campaign in western India against the Sakas.