maurya & post mauryan period MCQ set 5 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Gathasaptasati was written by the Satavahana ruler Hall in Prakrit language. The book contains the description of love stories of the king Hall. This book is an example of ancient Muktak-kavya.

Answer: (b)

Maurya dynasty ruled over Magadha after Nanda dynasty. Chandragupta destroyed the Nanda dynasty around 321 BC, and became the first king of the great Mauryan empire.

Answer: (c)

According to the Ayodhya inscription of Dhanadeva, Pushyamitra performed two horse sacrifices. The first one was probably during the time when Pushyamitra ascended the throne of Pataliputra, ousting the Mauryas and the second sacrifice was due to his victory over the Bactrian Greeks and to proclaim his dominion.

Answer: (b)

Kautiyla talked of the various heads of the different branches of the civil service. The superintendent of trade (Panyadhyaksha) was to head the commercial service, including internal and external trade.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Brihatkatha is a mammoth work composed by Gunadhya. Gunadhya is told to record them in Paisachi dialect which is the language of the goblins. The Gaha Sattasai is a collection of poems in Maharashtri Prakrit. The poems mostly have love as a theme.

The collection is attributed to the king Hala, and it is the collection of about forty poems. The Ram epic Pauma-chariya by Vimala Suri may be called a Shvetambara work.

This was composed 530 years after Mahavira's death, that is, in or about AD 4.