gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Samudragupta organised Ashwamedha Yajana. When a king thought that he had conquered the whole land, he used to let loose a white horse. The horse would roam wherever it liked. If anybody tried to capture it, he would have to fight the king’s army.

If the horse returned home without being captured, it meant that everyone in the land recognized the power of the king. The horse was then offered as sacrifice and killed. The ceremony was called the Ashvamedha Yajana.

Answer: (c)

Aryabhatta explained that the earth rotates on its axis but revolves around the sun. Aryabhatta was the first to explain how the Lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse happened.

Aryabhatta also gave close approximation for Pi. In the Aryabhatiya, he wrote: “Add 4 to 100, multiply by 8, then add 62000 and then divided by 20000. The result is approximately the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand.

Answer: (b)

The first Gupta ruler to assume the title of ‘Param Bhagawata’ was Chandragupta II.

The Bhagavata Purana entails the fully developed tenets and philosophy of the Bhagavata tradition wherein Krishna gets fused with Vasudeva and transcends Vedic Vishnu and cosmic Hari to be turned into the ultimate object of Bhakti.

Answer: (a)

The correctly matched pairs are:

• Madanverma — Chandella
• Vakpati — Parmara
• Chandradeva — Gahadavala

Ascending the throne in about 1130 AD, Madanvarman discarded the passive policy of peace and fought battles to revive the lost reputation of the Chandelas. He was a strong ruler of central Indian territory which included the four strongholds of the Chandelas, viz. Kalinjar, Mahoba, Ajaigarh and Khajuraho. The temples building activity was once again seen in Khajuraho. The Dulhadeo Temple was constructed during his reign, which ended around 1163 AD. Yashovarman II succeeded Madanvarman but had a very brief reign of two years.

Vakpatis Bruder and Nachfolger Sindhuraja Navasahasanka. The dynastic power became gradually consolidated in the period of the first three rulers: Yashovigraha, Mahichandra, and Chandradeva (c. 1089–1103). By the period of Chandradeva, the Gahadavalas had taken control of Varanasi, Ayodhya, Kannauj, and Indrasthaniyaka (modern Delhi) and had expanded throughout...