gupta & post gupta period quiz set 2 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

‘Gangai Kondacholapuram’ became the administrative centre of the Cholas from the time of Rajendra I. His empire extended the whole of southern India to river Thungabathra in north India, for the administrative and strategic purpose he built another capital and named Gangaikondacholapuram.

The Gangaikondacholapuram temple, he constructed, consists of 3 stories and surrounded by a huge fort-like wall, the outer wall was greatly destructed during the English rule (1896 AD).

Answer: (b)

Vatsabhatti was the court poet of Kumargupta. Samudragupta by Harisena and the Mandasor Inscription of Kumargupta by Vatsabhatti. Besides, information on Indian educational system have been culled out from Buddhist and Jain literature along with corroboratory account recorded by foreign travellers like Fa-hien, Hiuen Tsang and I-tsing of China and Hwui Lun of Korea.

Answer: (a)

The correctly matched pairs are:

• Charasadda — Pushkalavati
• Sirkap — Takshila
• 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 Swat River, near its junction with Kabul river. Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to 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 centre of Brahmanism and Buddhism, one of the names it had then was Vijayapuri, after king Vijaya Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty. Thereafter a 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: (d)

Vishakhadatta exposed evils of contemporary society by his satirical writings. There is no unanimity among the authorities on the date of Mudrarakshasa. However, the majority of them are in favour of assigning the composition of this Sanskrit work to 4th–5th centuries AD.

The Minister Signet’s Ring centres around the schemes of the wily Chanakya to frustrate the plots of Raksasa, the minister of Dhanananda, the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty.

Answer: (d)

The guild organization described in the Mandsore inscription of Kumargupta was known as Tantuvaya. This inscription informs us that he was a feudatory of the Gupta emperor Kumargupta I.

It was during his reign, a temple dedicated to Surya was constructed by the guild of silk-weavers at Dashapura in the Malava Samvat 493 (436 CE).

This temple was renovated in 473 CE by the same guild.

Answer: (b)

Samudragupta is depicted as playing on a flute on his coins. It was played with the strings being kept parallel to the body of the player, with both hands plucking the strings, as shown on Samudragupta’s gold coins.

Early literary sources of an ancient instrument called the Saptatantree Veenaa (7-string Veenaa) seem to coincide generally with the type of instrument represented on the coin.