gupta & post gupta period quiz set 7 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Arabs were defeated by Pratiharas in 738 AD. Indian inscriptions confirm this invasion but record the Arab success only against the smaller states in Gujarat. They also record the defeat of the Arabs at two places. The southern army moving south into Gujarat was repulsed at Navsari by the south Indian emperor Vikramaditya II of the Chalukya dynasty and Rashtrakutas.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

The religious conference was held by king Harshavardhana at Kannauj and Prayag. A courier brought the distressing intelligence that Grahavarman, king of Kanauj, and husband of Rajyasri, sister of the princes, had been slain by the King of Malwa, who cruelly misused the princess, “confining her like a brigand’s wife, with a pair of iron fetters kissing her feet.”

The young king, resolute to avenge his sister’s wrongs, started at once with a mobile force of ten thousand cavalries, leaving the elephants and heavy troops behind in his brother’s charge.

Answer: (a)

Amarsingh was the author of Amarkosha. Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha (Treasury of Amara), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the “Tripartite”. It is also known as “Namalinganushasana”. It contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class. The first chapter of the Kosha was printed in Rome in Tamil character in 1798.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

Astangasangraha is a text on medicine. This book ‘Astanga Sangraha’ of Acarya Vagbhata is an ancient authoritative text on Ayurveda studies many centuries by students, scholars and practitioners of Indian medicine. Because of its archaic style of composition and terse language certain amount of difficulty is being experienced.