gupta & post gupta period quiz set 14 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

The correctly matched pairs are:

1. Charasadda — Pushkalavati
2. Sirkap — Takshila
3. Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri

Pushkalavati (modern-day Charasadda) is an ancient site situated in Peshawar valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly NWFP) of Pakistan. It is located on the banks of the Swat River, near its junction with the Kabul River.

Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite the city of Takshila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded India around 180 BCE. A city flourished around 1,800 years ago at

Nagarjunakonda, the Hill of Nagarjuna. A great religious and educational center of Brahmanism and Buddhism, one of the names it had then was Vijayapuri, after king Vijaya Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty.

Thereafter the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty (225 – 325 CE), it fell into terminal decline after the demise of the last Ikshvaku king. A teacher, S Venkataramayya, discovered the ruins of the ancient city in 1926.

Answer: (a)

Kuberanaga was the mother of Prabhavati Gupta. Chandragupta II married the Naga Princess Kuberanaga and gave his own daughter, Prabhabati, in marriage to Vakataka king, Rudra Sena II.

The Vakataka alliance was a masterstroke of diplomacy as it secured the subordinate alliance of the Vakataka king who occupied a strategic geographical position. It is noteworthy that Rudra Sena died young and his widow reigned until her sons came of age.

Answer: (c)

Expansion of agricultural land took place on the largest scale in the Gupta age. The degeneration of the Vaisya’s (the third, or trader caste), which had begun earlier, intensified during this period.

Because of advanced agricultural techniques and developments in handicrafts, the condition of the Sudra’s (the fourth, or menial caste) improved and there was no great difference between a poor Vaisya and a prosperous Sudra.

Answer: (a)