gupta & post gupta period quiz set 8 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

‘Niralamba Saraswati’ thus lamented a poet at the demise of Bhoj Paramara. Raja Bhoja of Dhar was a philosopher king and polymath of medieval India. He was from the Paramara dynasty of Arya, who ruled the kingdom of Malwa in Central India from about 1010 to 1060. On his demise, a poet lamented “Adya Dhara Niradhara, Niralamba Saraswati Panditah Khanditah Sarve Bhojraje Divam Gate”.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Ujjain is a birth place of Brahmagupta. By the 6th century BC, Avanti with its capital at Ujjaini, is mentioned in Buddhist literature as one of the four great powers along with Vatsa, Kosala and Magadha. Ujjain lay on the main trade route between North India and Deccan going from Mathura via Ujjain to Mahismati (Maheshwar) on the Narmada, and on to Paithan on the Godavari, western Asia and the West.

Answer: (d)

The Nagas style of architecture developed mostly in North India. Chandra Gupta II also married to a Kadamba princess of Kuntala region and a princess of Naga lineage (Nagakulotpannna), Kuberanaga. His daughter Prabhabatigupta from this Naga queen was married to Rudrasea II, the Vakataka ruler of Deccan. His son Kumargupta I was married to Kadamba princess of Karnataka region.

Answer: (c)

Vikramshila Mahavihar was established by the ruler of pala dynasty. Pala Dynasty was the ruling dynasty in Bihar and Bengal, from the 8th to the 12th century. Called the Palas because all their names ended in Pala, “protector”, the Palas rescued Bengal from the chaos into which it had fallen after the death of Shashanka, a rival of Harsha of Kanauj. The founder of the dynasty was Gopala.

Answer: (c)

Gold coins attributed to Harsha depict on the reverse Shiva-Parvati. The Gupta period is considered the “Golden Age” of classical India. This was a time when great universities flourished in Nalanda and Takshashila, and great writers, such as the playwright Kalidasa, and great scientists, such as the mathematician and astronomer Aryabhatta, who is credited with the concept of zero among his many achievements, helped create an atmosphere of tremendous creative impulse.