gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 36

Which of the following ports were situated on the east coast of South India?

  1. Kaveripattanam
  2. Korkai
  3. Musiri
  4. Tondi
Select the correct answer from the codes given below codes:

a) 2 and 3

b) 1 and 3

c) 1 and 2

d) 3 and 4

Answer: (b)

Kaveripattanam and Mushiri ports were situated on the east coast of south India. Kaveripattanam, the chief port of the ancient Chola kingdom, was situated at the mouth of Kaveri river.

It is today identified with Puhar, a town in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. Kaveripattanam is also known as Kaveripattanam and Kaveripattanam. Once the capital of the early Chola rulers, Kaveripattanam has been described in various Sangam works and also in Ptolemy’s Geography and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea.

According to a Sinhalese source, the spacious harbour of Kaveripattanam was built by soldiers captured by the great Chola king Karikalan in a raid on Ceylon. During the first three centuries of the Christian era, Kaveripattanam was a prosperous city inhabited by rich merchants, traders, craftsmen and sailors.

Question : 37

Alwars who were Vaishnavaite saints were popular in which part of India?

a) Kashmir

b) South India

c) Gujarat

d) Bengal

Answer: (b)

Question : 38

The term ‘Mandapika’ occurring in early medieval inscriptions denotes

a) Custom house

b) Rest house

c) Assembly hall

d) Hermitage

Answer: (b)

The term ‘Mandapika’ occurring in early medieval inscriptions denotes rest house. When there are several Mandapas in the temple, it is the biggest and the tallest.

It is used for conducting religious discourses. Sometimes, the Mahamandapa is also built along a transversal axis with a transept (bumped-out portions along this transversal axis).

At the exterior, the transept ends by a large window which brings light and freshness into the temple.

Question : 39

The royal seal of the Guptas bore the emblem of

a) Garuda

b) Nandi

c) Tiger

d) Lion

Answer: (a)

Question : 40

Expansion of agricultural land took place on the largest scale in which period ?

a) Mauryan age

b) Pre-Mauryan age

c) Gupta age

d) Post-Mauryan age

Answer: (c)

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