gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The authentic sources are Aihole inscription of Pulakesin II and Travels of Yuan Chwang. Ravikirti, the poet, was the panegyric writer of the Aihole inscription of 634 AD. He says that Harsha to whom "hosts of feudatories" offered their homage "through Pulakesin II had his joy (Harsha) melted away by fear, with his rows of lordly elephants fallen in battle.

"This inscription also indicates that the battle was fought somewhere between the Vindhya and the Rewa (Narmada).

Yuan Chang, Yuan Chwang, and Yuen Chwang are other names of Huentsangwas a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang dynasty.

Born in what is now Henan province in 602, from boyhood he took to reading religious books, including the Chinese classics and the writings of ancient sages.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

The royal emblem used by the Gupta period was Garuda. Most people now realize that Rapson was mistaken in identifying the central bird like a peacock; rather, it is the mythic eagle Garuda, the dynastic symbol of the Guptas.

For example, A.S. Altekar says that the three-arched hill in the centre is replaced by Garuda, which was the imperial insignia of the Guptas. The view of earlier writers that the bird is a peacock is clearly untenable.

Answer: (c)

The temple at Deogarh near Jhansi and the sculptures in the temple at Garhwas near Allahabad remain important specimen of the Gupta art. There was no influence of Gandhara style.

But the beautiful statue of standing Buddha at Mathura reveals a little Greek style. The Buddha statue unearthed at Saranath was a unique piece of Gupta art. The Bhitari monolithic pillar of Skandagupta is also remarkable. Metallurgy had also made wonderful progress during the Gupta period.

The craftsmen were efficient in the art of casting metal statues and pillars. The gigantic copper statue of Buddha, originally found at Sultanganj now kept at Birmingham museum, was about seven and a half feet height and nearly a ton weight.

The Delhi Iron pillar of the Gupta period is still free from rust though completely exposed to sun and rain for so many centuries.