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Questions : Arrange the following Mahajanpadas moving from west to east in the correct order:
  1. Avanti
  2. Magadha
  3. Matsya
  4. Kosala
Codes:

(a) 1 3 4 2

(b) 1 2 3 4

(c) 1 3 2 4

(d) 1 4 3 2

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

Mahajanapadas west to east are Avanti, Matsya, Kosala and Magadha. There were many states of the Aryans in North India, around the 6th century BC. These states were called the ‘Mahajanapadas’.

There were sixteen of such Mahajanapadas:

  1. Kasi,
  2. Kosala,
  3. Anga,
  4. Magadha,
  5. Vajji,
  6. Malla,
  7. Chedi,
  8. Vatsa,
  9. Kuru,
  10. Panchala,
  11. Machcha,
  12. Surasena,
  13. Assaka,
  14. Avanti,
  15. Gandhara and
  16. Kamboja.

Literally, Mahajanapadas means ‘Great Kingdoms’.

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Question : 1

The capital of Magadha was shifted from Rajgriha to

a) Ujjaini

b) Varanasi

c) Kannauj

d) Patliputra

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

Chandra Gupta Maura was the follower of?

a) Hinduism

b) Aynika

c) Jainism

d) Buddhism

Answer: (c)

Question : 3

List-I (King) List-II (Kingdom)
A. Pradyota 1. Magadha
B. Udayana 2. Vatsa
C. Prasenjit 3. Avanti
D. Ajatshatru 4. Kosala
Codes: A B C D

a) 3 2 4 1

b) 2 3 1 4

c) 4 1 3 2

d) 1 4 2 3

Answer: (a)

Correctly matched pairs are:

  1. Pradyot — Avanti
  2. Udayana — Vatsa
  3. Prasenjit — Kosala
  4. Ajatshatru — Magadha

Question : 4

Which one of the following Janapadas was republican state in sixth century BC?

a) Anga

b) Mayadha

c) Vajji

d) Kosala

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

The list of sixteen Mahajanapadas is available in

a) Chhandogya Upanishad

b) Samyukta Nikaya

c) Anguttara Nikaya

d) Mahabharata

Answer: (c)

Question : 6

Arrange the following Magadha dynasties in the chronological order:

  1. Nandas
  2. Sungas
  3. Mauryas
  4. Haryanks
Codes:

a) 3, 2, 1, 4

b) 1, 3, 4, 2

c) 4, 1, 3, 2

d) 2, 1, 4, 3

Answer: (c)

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