gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 21

Astanga Samgraha is a text on

a) Philosophy

b) Polity

c) Medicine

d) Astronomy

Answer: (c)

Astangasangraha is a text on medicine. This book ‘Astanga Sangraha’ of Acarya Vagbhata is an ancient authoritative text on Ayurveda studies many centuries by students, scholars and practitioners of Indian medicine. Because of its archaic style of composition and terse language certain amount of difficulty is being experienced.

Question : 22

Gupta Era was started in

a) 340 A. D.

b) 330 A. D.

c) 320 A. D.

d) 350 A. D.

Answer: (c)

Question : 23

Who was the author of Amarkosha?

a) Amarsingh

b) Amar Kanta

c) Kalidasa

d) Chandragomina

Answer: (a)

Amarsingh was the author of Amarkosha. Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha (Treasury of Amara), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the “Tripartite”. It is also known as “Namalinganushasana”. It contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class. The first chapter of the Kosha was printed in Rome in Tamil character in 1798.

Question : 24

Majority of the Gupta emperors patronised

a) Jainism

b) Buddhism

c) Shaivism

d) Vaishnavism

Answer: (d)

Question : 25

Arabs were defeated in 738 AD by

a) Rashtrakutas

b) Palas

c) Chalukyas

d) Pratiharas

Answer: (d)

Arabs were defeated by Pratiharas in 738 AD. Indian inscriptions confirm this invasion but record the Arab success only against the smaller states in Gujarat. They also record the defeat of the Arabs at two places. The southern army moving south into Gujarat was repulsed at Navsari by the south Indian emperor Vikramaditya II of the Chalukya dynasty and Rashtrakutas.

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