gupta & post gupta period quiz set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The concept of Trimurti was propgated during the Gupta period. Trimurti is a Hinduism concept in which the functions of creation, preservation and destruction are personified. They are embodied by the forms of the creator, Brahma, preserver, Vishnu and the destroyer known as Shiva.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The royal emblem used by the Gupta period was Garuda. Most people now realize that Rapson was mistaken in identifying the central bird like a peacock; rather, it is the mythic eagle Garuda, the dynastic symbol of the Guptas.

For example, A.S. Altekar says that the three-arched hill in the centre is replaced by Garuda, which was the imperial insignia of the Guptas. The view of earlier writers that the bird is a peacock is clearly untenable.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The authentic sources are Aihole inscription of Pulakesin II and Travels of Yuan Chwang. Ravikirti, the poet, was the panegyric writer of the Aihole inscription of 634 AD. He says that Harsha to whom "hosts of feudatories" offered their homage "through Pulakesin II had his joy (Harsha) melted away by fear, with his rows of lordly elephants fallen in battle.

"This inscription also indicates that the battle was fought somewhere between the Vindhya and the Rewa (Narmada).

Yuan Chang, Yuan Chwang, and Yuen Chwang are other names of Huentsangwas a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang dynasty.

Born in what is now Henan province in 602, from boyhood he took to reading religious books, including the Chinese classics and the writings of ancient sages.