gupta & post gupta period quiz set 6 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Harsha has been criticised by Kalhana for confiscating the temple. Harsha (r.1089-1111) started out as a capable and noble king. Then ran into financial trouble because of his spending habits, and became an evil person.

For the gold, he started raiding temples and started destroying statues. Harsha never felt like a “Hindu” king per se as there were no people who felt themselves to be “Hindus” in those days.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

Chola dynasty is meant by Arab writers when they say that the women did not cover their faces with a veil. This clan came to be known as the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, rising to power in South India in 753.

At the same time, the Pala dynasty of Bengal and the Pratihara dynasty of Malwa were gaining force in eastern and northwestern India respectively. An Arabic writing Silsilatuttavarikh (851) called the Rashtrakutas one of the four principal empires of the world.

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: (c)

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.