gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 11 [MPPCS (Pre) 2014]

Who among the following is not related to the Philosophy of Vedanta?

a) Abhinav Gupta

b) Madhava

c) Shankaracharya

d) Ramanuja

Answer: (a)

Question : 12

During the Gupta period, a number of new castes made their appearance due to

  1. Assimilation of foreigners
  2. Absorption of tribals
  3. Rise of rich commercial and trading classes

a) (i) and (ii)

b) (ii) and (iii)

c) (i) only

d) (i), (ii) and (iii)

Answer: (d)

Question : 13

Which of the following pair(s) is/are correctly matched?

  1. Charasada — Pushkalavati
  2. Sirkap — Takshila
  3. Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri
  4. Ter — Tamralipti
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

a) 1, 2 and 3

b) 1, 2 and 4

c) 2, 3 and 4

d) 2 and 4

Answer: (a)

The correctly matched pairs are:

  1. Charasadda — Pushkalavati
  2. Sirkap — Takshila
  3. Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri

Pushkalavati (modern-day Charasadda) is an ancient site situated in Peshawar valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly NWFP) of Pakistan. It is located on the banks of the Swat River, near its junction with the Kabul River.

Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite the city of Takshila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded India around 180 BCE. A city flourished around 1,800 years ago at

Nagarjunakonda, the Hill of Nagarjuna. A great religious and educational center of Brahmanism and Buddhism, one of the names it had then was Vijayapuri, after king Vijaya Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty.

Thereafter the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty (225 – 325 CE), it fell into terminal decline after the demise of the last Ikshvaku king. A teacher, S Venkataramayya, discovered the ruins of the ancient city in 1926.

Question : 14

WhichChalukyan rulerissaid to have received an embassy from the Persian king Khusrau II?

a) Vikramaditya I

b) Pulkesin II

c) Vijayaditya

d) Vinayaditya

Answer: (b)

Question : 15

Who of the following Gupta kings granted permission to Meghverma, the ruler of Sri Lanka to build a Buddhist temple at Gaya?

a) Chandragupta II

b) Chandragupta I

c) Skandgupta

d) Samudragupta

Answer: (d)

Samudragupta granted permission to Meghverma the ruler of Sri Lanka to build a Buddhist temple in Gaya. Kittisirimegha of Sri Lanka, a contemporary of Samudragupta, erected with the permission of Samudragupta, a Sangharama near the Mahabodhi Vihara, chiefly for the use of the Singhalese monks who went to worship the Bodhi tree.

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