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

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

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)

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