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

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: (c)

Kamandaka was the author of legal treatise ‘Nitisara’.

The Nitisara of Kamandaki a post-Maurya treatise narrating the elements of polity divided in twenty Sargas and thirty-six Prakarans is dependent on the Arthashastra of Kautilya dealing inter-alia with theories of social order authority and obligation of the temporal ruler theories of states, structure and organs of governance principles and policies of the government, interstate relations, functions of envoys ambassadors and spies, application of different political expedients, varieties of battle arrays, attitude towards morality, etc.

Answer: (b)

Jayasimha Siddharaja had granted one lakh balotras from his own treasury for the restoration of a mosque of Khambhat.

Jayasimha Siddharaja was the greatest Chalukya king who, in commemoration of his victory against the Paramaras, adopted the title of Avantinatha.

During the reign of Bhima II (1178- 1241), Muhammad Ghori made an unsuccessful attempt to subjugate Gujarat in 1178 AD.

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.