gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (a)

Bana and Medhatithi are known for their criticism of custom of Sati.

In Bana's famous novel Kadambari (Kadambari. is the name of the heroine), the hero explains to a young widow, ready to ascend the funeral pyre, that Sati is absolutely useless and without logic: "It is a mistake of stupendous magnitude Dharma Shastras which criticize Sati,

e.g. Medhatithi (10th C.): Sati is "non-scriptural" Sati is not supported by any authoritative law-book. Other critics of sati belong to the twelfth century (170 – 171).

The Hindus from Banabhatta a 7th C poet to the Shaivatantrika. Medhatithi emphatically opposes it. The Shruti literature while it alludes to the custom of Sati in the Vedic verses, such as the Rigveda, the references are not unequivocal.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

Ballalasena assumed the title ‘Nihsankasankara’. According to Sena epigraph, Ballal was an author. He wrote Danasagara in 1168. And in 1169, he started but did not finish writing Adbhutasagara.

In Adbhutasagara, it was mentioned that Ballalsen conquered Mithila while Vijaysen was still alive. Besides he introduced the practice of Kulinism.

Answer: (a)

The evidence of water tax is provided by the inscriptions of Gahadavalas The Gahadavalas occupy a very important place in Indian history. They ruled for over a century (AD 1089-1097), over a vast region of North India, which extended from the western bank of Yamuna in the west to Patna, Monghyr and Bodhgaya in Bihar in the east.

It extended from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to Baghelkhanda in Madhya Pradesh in the south.

Answer: (c)

Sanskrit was the official language of the Gupta period. Scholars of this period includeVarahamihira and Aryabhatta, who is believed to be the first to come up with the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses.

Kalidasa, who was a great playwright, who wrote plays such as Shakuntala, which is said to have inspired Goethe, and marked the highest point of Sanskrit literature is also said to have belonged to this period.