gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (b)

Ujjain is a birth place of Brahmagupta. By the 6th century BC, Avanti with its capital at Ujjaini, is mentioned in Buddhist literature as one of the four great powers along with Vatsa, Kosala and Magadha. Ujjain lay on the main trade route between North India and Deccan going from Mathura via Ujjain to Mahismati (Maheshwar) on the Narmada, and on to Paithan on the Godavari, western Asia and the West.

Answer: (b)

The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero was invented in India during the Gupta dynasty. The mathematical concept of zero emerged in India about one and a half thousand years ago.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The Rock-cut temples of Mahabalipuram were built under the patronage of the Pallava kings. Mahabalipuram lies on the Coromandel coast which faces the Bay of Bengal. This is an elegant place to watch which was a well-established sea port during the 7th and 10th centuries of the Pallava dynasty. This was the second capital of the Pallavas who ruled Kanchipuram.

Answer: (c)

Nalanda University was founded by Kumaragupta I during the Gupta period. Most of the information that is available about Nalanda University during the 6th and 7th centuries A.D. is due to the accounts left by the Chinese pilgrims, Hiuen-Tsang who lived here for three years in the first half of the 7th century and I-Tsing who stayed here for ten years towards the later part of the same century. From Chinese accounts, it is evident that about one thousand and five hundred teachers and ten thousand monk students lived in Nalanda. However, at the time of I-Tsing, the numerical strength of students studying at the University was about three thousand. Nalanda attracted students from places as distant as China and South-east Asia.