gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 31 [IAS (Pre) 2012]

With reference to the scientific progress of ancient India, which of the statements given below are correct?

  1. Different kinds of specialised surgical instruments were in common use by A.D. first century.
  2. Transplant of internal organs in the human body had begun by the beginning of A.D. third century.
  3. The concept of the sine of an angle was known in A.D. fifth century.
  4. The concept of cyclic quadrilaterals was known in A.D. seventh century.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.

a) 3 and 4

b) 1, 2, 3 and 4

c) 1 and 2

d) 1, 3 and 4

Answer: (d)

Question : 32

List-I (Dynasty) List-II (State)
A. Kadamba 1. Odisha
B. Kharvela 2. Karnataka
C. Chalukya 3. Bengal
D. Pala 4. Gujarat
Codes: A B C D

a) 1 2 3 4

b) 1 2 4 3

c) 2 1 4 3

d) 2 1 3 4

Answer: (c)

The correct match list of dynasty and states is:

  1. Kadamba - Karnataka
  2. Kharvela - Odisha
  3. Chalukya - Gujarat
  4. Pala - Bengal

The Kadamba dynasty (345 – 525 CE) was a primeval majestic dynasty of Karnataka that ruled from Vaijayanti or Banavasi in the present-day Uttara Kannada district. The decline of the Satavahana power in the Deccan was followed by the rule of many lesser dynasties like the Chutes, the Abhiras, and the Ikshvakus. During the third century AD the Karnataka area, however, emerged out of this political confusion in the following century.

Kharavela (193 BCE – after 170 BCE) was the third and greatest emperor of the Mahameghavahana dynasty of Kalinga (present-day Odisha). The main source of information about Kharavela is his famous seventeen-line rock-cut Hatigumpha inscription in a cave in the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

The Chalukya dynasty was a powerful Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th century CE.

Pala dynasty, ruling dynasty in Bihar and Bengal, India, from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Its founder, Gopala, was a local chieftain who rose to power in the mid-8th century during a period of anarchy.

Question : 33 [Chhattisgarh PCS (Pre) 2016]

Who among the following is called founder of Indian Atomism?

a) Maharshi Gautam

b) Maharshi Patanjali

c) Maharshi Kapil

d) Maharshi Kanad

Answer: (d)

Question : 34 [41st BPSC (Pre) 1996]

Poet Bana was inhabitant of

a) Thaneshwar

b) None of these

c) Pataliputra

d) Bhojpur

Answer: (b)

Question : 35

What was the normal rate of interest on loans during the Guptas period?

a) 20%

b) 25%

c) 10%

d) 15%

Answer: (d)

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