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(a) The strength of the Mauryan army was curtailed
(b) The number of casualties of combatants and noncombatants is stated to have been around four lakhs
(c) He wages no wars after the Kalinga War
(d) The cruel consequences of war revolutionized the personality and public policies of Ashoka
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
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Question : 1
Which of the following statements are correct?
- The Jain text, Parisistha Parvam, describes that with the help of Chanakya, Chandragupta defeated the Nanda king and captured him.
- Chandra Gupta defeated the invading army of the Greek Kshatrapa Seleucus who had succeeded Alexander in the eastern part of his empire.
- The Junagarh rock inscription of Rudradaman says that a dam on the Sudarshana lake for irrigation was constructed by Pushyagupta, ·a provincial governor of Chandragupta Maurya.
- Seleucus sent Megasthenese as his ambassador to the court of Chandragupta.
a) 1, 3, and 4 only
b) 2, 3, and 4 only
c) 1, 2, and 3 only
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer »Answer: (d)
The victory over Seleucus was achieved in about 305 B.C. The Greek writers do not give details of the war but state that a treaty was concluded in which Seleucus conceded the territories of Kandahar, Kabul, Herat and Baluchistan and Chandragupta presented him 500 elephants.
It is also stated that this also led to the matrimonial alliance between the two – perhaps Seleucus married his daughter to Chandragupta Maurya or to his son Bindusara.
Question : 2
The practice of land grants to brahmins and Buddhist was initiated by
a) Vakatakas
b) Sungas
c) Satavahanas
d) Guptas
Answer »Answer: (c)
The beginning of the practice of land grants with fiscal and administrative immunities to Brahmins and Buddhist monks was made by the Satavahanas.
Question : 3
The lowest order in the social scale of Mauryan society was not a slave but the outcaste. Which of the following statements about the outcastes is not correct?
a) They were not allowed to perform any rituals
b) Their caste names referred directly to their profession or work
c) They lived together with their families outside the towns
d) They accepted the position of social ostracism
Answer »Answer: (a)
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