gupta & post gupta period quiz set 1 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

The six district school of Indian philosophy Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaishasika, Mimansa, Vedanta became fully articulated during the Gupta period.

Answer: (b)

The correct match list of dynasty and states is: Dynasty State Kadamba Karnataka Kharvela Odisha Chalukya Gujarat Pala Bengal The Kadamba Dynasty (345 – 525 CE) was a primaeval majestic dynasty of Karnataka that ruled from Vaijayanti or Banavasi in present day Uttara Kannada district.

The decline of the Satavahana power in the Deccan was followed by the rule of many lesser dynasties like the Chutes, the Abhiras and the Ikshvakus. During the third century AD the Karnataka area, however, emerged out of this political confusion in the following century. Kharavela (193 BCE – after 170 BCE) was the third and greatest emperor of the Mahameghavahana dynasty of Kalinga (present-day Odisha).

The main source of information about Kharavela is his famous seventeen lines rock-cut Hathigumpha inscription in a cave in the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The Chalukya dynasty was a powerful Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th century CE.

Pala dynasty, ruling dynasty in Bihar and Bengal, India, from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Its founder, Gopala, was a local chieftain who rose to power in the mid-8th century during a period of anarchy.

Answer: (c)

Vaital Deul, the Odishan temples, has a Shikhar of Dravidian style.Vaital Deul temple is a eight century temple situated near Bindu Sarovar where main deity is Chamunda, the Tantric form of goddess Durga.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

Dhanavantri was a physician. Dhanvantari is depicted as Vishnu with four hands, holding medical herbs in one hand and a pot containing rejuvenating nectar called amrita in another. He is often shown with a leech in his hand rather than the scriptures.

The Puranas state that Dhanavantari emerged from the ‘Ocean of Milk’ and appeared with the pot of nectar during the story of the Samudra or Sagar Manthan whilst the ocean was being churned by the Devas and Asuras, using the Mandara mountain and the serpent Vasuki.