gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (c)

The first meeting of Ghosal with Mahavir Swami was held at Nalanda. Parsva, the traditional predecessor of Mahavira is the first Jain figure for whom there is reasonable historical evidence. He might have lived somewhere in the 9th–7th century BCE.

Followers of Parsva are mentioned in the canonical books and a legend in the Uttar? Dayana sutra relates a meeting between a disciple of Parsva and a disciple of Mahavira which brought about the union of the old branch of the Jain church and the new one.

Answer: (a)

Chola kingdom rose in the 9th century. It was Vijayalaya who established it. Other rulers were

• Aditya-I,
• Parantaka Chola-I,
• Rajaraja Chola-I and
• Rajendra Chola.

Answer: (c)

The king was assisted in his administration by a council consisting of a chief minister, a Senapati or commander in chief of the army and other important officials.

A high official called Sandivigraha was mentioned in the Gupta inscriptions, most probably minister for foreign affairs. Provinces in the Gupta Empire were known as Bhuktis and provincial governors as Uparikas.

They were mostly chosen from among the princes. Bhuktis were subdivided into Vaishyas or districts. They were governed by Vishyapatis. Nagara Sreshtis were the officers looking after the city administration. The villages in the district were under the control of Gram Vikas.

Answer: (c)

The correct match list of authors and Kavyas is:

Samrat Hemachandra Vikramaditya (also known as HemuVikramaditya, Raja Vikramaditya or simply Hemu) (1501 – 5 November 1556) was a Hindu emperor of north India during the sixteenth century AD. The Prithviraj Vijay is a contemporary account of the 12th century the Kingdom of Ajmer ruled by the Chauhan clan. In 1192, outlying portions of the kingdom fell to invading Turks, and the capital Ajmer later in 1195, but other parts under the Chauhan Rajaputras continued to resist the invaders for more than a century.

The text helps to dispel many myths from that period, that have developed in later writings, for example, the establishment of a Sufi shrine in Ajmer. He was the grandson of Pinaka Nandi and the son of Prajapati Nandi, the Sandhi-Vigrahika (minister of peace and war) of the Pala emperor Ramapala.

He wrote the epic poem Ramacharitam.

Answer: (c)

In the Gupta period, the language used by the people of low society level and women was Prakrit. The word, derived from its Indian root “Parikrit”, itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, “original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual”, or “vernacular”, in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of sanskrita.

Alternatively, Prakrit can be taken to mean “derived from an original,” means evolved in a natural way.