gupta & post gupta period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (a)

Achyuta was probably a Naga ruler. Nagasena belonged to the Kota family which was ruling over the upper Gangetic valley. They were defeated and their states were annexed.

Samudragupta defeated twelve rulers of south India -

1. Mahendra of Kosala,
2. Vyaghraraja of Mahakanthara,
3. Mantaraja of Kaurala,
4. Mahendragiri of Pishtapura,
5. Swamidatta of Kottura,
6. Damana of Erandapalla,
7. Vishnugupta of Kanchi,
8. Nilaraja of Avamukta,
9. Hastivarman of Vengi,
10. Ugrasena of Palakka,
11. Kubera of Devarashtra and
12. Dhananjaya of Kushtalapura.

Answer: (b)

Rajendra I was ruling the Chola kingdom at the time of Mahmud Ghazni’s expedition of Somnath. Rajendra Chola I was the son of Rajaraja Chola I, the great Chola king of present day southern India. He succeeded his father in 1014 CE as the Chola emperor. During his reign, he extended the influences of the already vast Chola empire up to the banks of the river Ganges in the north and across the ocean.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Dantidurga, the Rashtrakuta rulers, is known to have made the Hiranyagarbha-dana’ at Ujjaini. Rashtrakutas were subordinate to the Chalukyas. Dantidurga, a Rashtrakuta chief, threw his Chalukyan overlord and performed Hiranya-garbha, a ritual that is thought to lead to the rebirth of the sacrificer as a Kshatriya. Dantidurga, thus, founded the Rashtrakuta empire.

Answer: (b)

The Gupta gold coins were known as Dinar. The world’s first coins were Greek, made in Lydia about 640 BC. The earliest Indian coins were silver, and it was not until about 100 AD that the Kushan emperor Vima Kadaphises introduced the first Indian gold coin, which was a gold dinar bearing the image of Shiva. So India’s history of issuing gold coins dates back almost 2,000 years.