gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 16 [UPPCS (Spl)(Mains) 2004]

The Ashoka Pillar at Allahabad provides information about the reign of

a) Chandragupta-I

b) Samudragupta

c) Chandragupta Maurya

d) Chandragupta-II

Answer: (b)

Question : 17

Who was the author of Amarkosha?

a) Amarsingh

b) Chandragomina

c) Kalidasa

d) Amar Kanta

Answer: (a)

Amar Singh was the author of Amarkosha. Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha (Treasury of Amara), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the “Tripartite”.

It is also known as “Namalinganushasana”.It contains 10,000 words and is arranged, like other works of its class, in meter, to aid the memory. The first chapter of the Kosha was printed in Rome in Tamil character in 1798.

Question : 18 [60th to 62nd BPSC (Pre) 2016]

Chinese traveller ‘Sungyun’ was came in India in

a) 525 A.D. to 529 A.D.

b) 592 A.D. to 597 A.D.

c) 515 A.D. to 520 A.D.

d) 545 A.D. to 552 A.D.

Answer: (c)

Question : 19

The Gupta king who has the title of ‘Mahendraditya’?

a) RamaGupta

b) VishnuGupta

c) KumaraGupta

d) BudhaGupta

Answer: (c)

Question : 20

The capital of Gupta Empire was

a) Kannauj

b) Pataliputra

c) Dhanyakatakam

d) Peshawar

Answer: (b)

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