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The following question based on gupta & post gupta period topic of indian history mcq
- Aryabhatta
- Brahmagupta
- Lagadh
- Varahamihira
(a) 2 1 4 3
(b) 4 3 2 1
(c) 1 2 3 4
(d) 3 1 4 2
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (d)
The correct chronological order is:
Lagadh, Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Brahamgupta The author of the treatise "Dzhetisha-Vedanga" ("Jyotisavedanga"), written between 450 and 350 BC. This work is a guide to determine the time for execution of the Vedic sacrificial.
"DzhetishaVedanga" preserved in the revised and corrected, which used Rigvediyya-Brahmins Aryabhata the Elder to distinguish him from a 10th-century Indian mathematician of the same name, he flourished in Kusumapura—near Patalipurta (Patna), then the capital of the Gupta dynasty.
Varahamihira also called Varahamira or simply Varaha, was one of the most celebrated scientists in South Asian history, having made substantial contributions to virtually all branches of the arts and sciences. Brahmagupta was the foremost Indian mathematician of his time.
He made advances in astronomy and most importantly in number systems including algorithms for square roots and the solution of quadratic equations.
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Question : 1
Which of the following literary works did not belong to the Gupta period?
a) Abhigyanashakuntalam
b) Amarakosa
c) Mrichhakatikam
d) Charaka Samhita
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 2
Who among the following is known as the ‘Napoleon of India’ ?
a) Samudragupta
b) Chandragupta II
c) Harshvardhan
d) Chandragupta Maurya
Answer »Answer: (a)
Samudragupta (335-375 AD) of the Gupta dynasty is known as the Napoleon of India.
Historian AV Smith called him so because of his great military conquests known from the ‘Prayag Prashati’ written by his courtier and poet Harisena, who also describes him as the hero of a hundred battles.
But some leading Indian historians criticise Smith and feel that Samudragupta was a far greater warrior than Napoleon, as the former never lost any battle.
Question : 3
Who among the following Chinese travellers visited the Kingdoms of Harsrhavardhana and Kumar Bhaskar Varma?
a) Fa–Hien
b) I–Tsing
c) Sun Shuyun
d) Hiuen Tsang
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 4
Which of the following are true about Samudragupta?
- He is also known as ‘Kaviraja’
- He is known as “Lichchhavi Dauhitra’
- He built the most extensive empire after Asoka.
a) 3 only
b) 1 and 3
c) 1 and 2
d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer »Answer: (d)
Samudragupta is also known as ‘KavirajaLichchhavi Dauhitra’. 'Samudragupta was a man of many-sided genius, who put to shame the preceptor of the Lord Gods and Tumburu and Narada and others by his sharp and polished intellect and Chorlaskill and musical accomplishment. The Allahabad inscription, composed by the court poet Harisena in praise of Samundragupta's spectacular victories, lists the names of kings and countries defeated by the Gupta ruler.
During Samudragupta's reign, the Gupta empire became one of the largest in the East. Its fluence spread and close ties were established with many other stages. This assessment made by the court poet of old has considerable influence on many modern scholars who tend to idealise Samudragupta and described him as did Vincent A.
Smith as (as the Indian Nepoleon) an outstanding individual possessed of remarkable qualities.
Question : 5
Which of the following pair(s) are/is correctly matched?
- Charasada — Pushkalavati
- Sirkap — Takshila
- Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri
- Ter — Tamralipti
a) 1, 2 and 3
b) 2, 3 and 4
c) 1, 2 and 4
d) 2 and 4
Answer »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.
Question : 6
Who was the court poet of Kumargupta?
a) Veersena
b) Vatsabhatti
c) Vishnusharma
d) Kalidasa
Answer »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.
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