maurya & post mauryan period MCQ set 6 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The revenues came from the land, irrigation, customs, shop tax, ferry tax, forests, mines and pastures, license fee from craftsmen, and fines collected in the law courts. The land revenue was normally fixed as one-sixth of the produce. The main items of expenditure of the state related to the king and his household, army, government servants, public works, poor relief, religion, etc.

Kautilya refers to the salaries of different ranks of military officers. According to Greek author Pliny, the Mauryan army consisted of six lakh infantry, thirty thousand cavalries, nine thousand elephants and eight thousand chariots. In addition to these four wings, there were the Navy and Transport and Supply wings.

Each wing was under the control of Adyakshas or Superintendents. Megasthenes mentions six boards of five members each to control the six wings of the military.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

The correct match list is (Rulers - Country)

1. Antiyoka - Syria
2. Antikini - Macedonia
3. Maka - Cyrena
4. Turmaya - Egypt

• kings-Antiyoka (Syria 261-246 B. C.)
• Turamaya (Egypt, upto 247 B.C.),
• Kairina Kamar (300-250 B.C.) Alika Sundara (Apiran, 272-258 B.C.),
• Autkina (Macedonia 278—339 B.C.). Historians find that all these rulers were thus before 258 B. C.
• The ruler of Apiran died in 258 B. C. but it finds mention in Ashoka’s inscription.

Answer: (a)

Lumbini pillar inscriptions, King Ashoka visited Lumbini and worshipped the Buddha, the sage of the Sakyans was born there. He set up a pillar and the village of Lumbini was exempted from tax and required to pay only one-eighth of the produce because the Lord was born there.

Answer: (a)