History of India | Ancient History | Gupta and Post-Gupta Period

History of India | Ancient History | Gupta and Post-Gupta Period

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1. Who is known as the Napoleon of India?

Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta-II Vikramaditya
Great Ashoka
Samudragupta

2. Who among the following Gupta Kings had another name Devagupta?

Samudragupta
Chandragupta-II
Kumargupta
None of the above

3. Gupta dynasty ruled during

319-500 A.D.
319-324 A.D.
325-375 A.D.
566-597 A.D.

4. The first Gupta ruler to assume the title of 'Param Bhagavata' was

Chandragupta-I
Samudragupta
Chandragupta-II
Srigupta

5. The Allahabad Pillar inscription is associated with which one of the following?

Mahapadma Nanda
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka
Samudragupta

6. The Ashoka Pillar at Allahabad provides information about the reign of

Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta-I
Chandragupta-II
Samudragupta

7. Prayag Prashashti tells about the military campaign of

Chandragupta-I
Samudragupta
Chandragupta-II
Kumaragupta

8. 'Prithivyah Pratham Veer' was the title of

Samudragupta
Rajendra-I
Amoghavarsha
Gautamiputra Shatkarni

9. Which dynasty was distracted the most by the Hunas invasion?

Maurya
Kushan
Gupta
Shunga

10. The Hunas invaded India during the reign of

Chandragupta-II
Kumaragupta-I
Skandagupta
Budhagupta

11. Who among the following Gupta Rulers conquered Hunas?

Chandragupta-II
Kumaragupta-I
Skandagupta
Bhanugupta

12. From which inscription it is known that Skandagupta defeated Hunas?

Bhitari Pillar Inscription
Allahabad Pillar Inscription
Mandsaur Inscription
Udayagiri Inscription

13. Who is known as 'Saka-conqueror'?

Chandragupta-I
Samudragupta
Chandragupta-II
Kumargupta

14. Who was the first Gupta ruler to issue silver coins?

Chandragupta-I
Samudragupta
Chandragupta-II
Kumargupta

15. From the third century A.D. when the Huna invasion ended'the Roman Empire, the Indian merchants relied more and more on the

African trade
Western-European trade
South-East Asian trade
Middle-Eastern trade

16. Which one of the following ports handled the North Indian trade during the Gupta period?

Tamralipti
Bhadoch
Kalyan
Cambay

17. Centres located in Gujarat, Bengal, Deccan and Tamil Country during the Gupta period were associated with which of the following?

Textile manufacture
Gems and precious stones
Handicrafts
Opium cultivation

18. Which one of the following ports handled the North Indian trade during the Gupta Period?

Bhadoch
Kalyan
Cambay
Tamralipti

19. Who among the following is not associated with medicine in ancient India?

Dhanvantri
Bhaskaracharya
Charaka
Susruta

20. Who of the following among the Nine Gems of Chandragupta was associated with Astrology?

Vararuchi
Sanku
Kshapanak
Amar Singh

21. Kalidas was in the ruling period of

Samudragupta
Ashoka
Chandragupta-I
Chandragupta-II

22. Which (among these) are Gupta's gold coins?

Kaudi
Dinara
Nishka
Pan

23. The silver coins issued by the Guptas were called

Karshapana
Dinara
Rupaka
Nisc

24. Who of the following was the first Gupta ruler to issue coins?

Chandragupta-I
Ghatotkacha
Samudragupta
Srigupta

25. In Sanskrit plays written during the Gupta period women and Sudras speak

Sanskrit
Prakrit
Pali
Sauraseni

26. The first inscriptional evidence of the Satipratha has been found from

Eran
Junagarh
Mandsaur
Sanchi

27. Who established Gupta Samvat?

Chandragupta-I
Chandragupta-II
Srigupta
Ghatotkacha

28. The gradual decline of towns was an important feature of which period?

Gupta period
Pratihara era
Rashtrakut
Satavahana era

29. Which ruling dynasty donated maximum villages to temples and Brahmins?

Gupta Dynasty
Pala Dynasty
Rashtrakut
Pratihara

30. In ancient India, which dynasty's rule is considered as the Golden Age?

Mauryan
Shunga
Gupta
Magadha

31. During which age did women enjoy equality with men?

Gupta age
Mauryan age
Cholas
Vedic age

32. What was the land revenue rate in Gupta age?

Fourth part of the production
Sixth part of the production
Eighth part of the production
Half part of the production

33. What is the valid tax according Hindu law?

Half of the yields
One-sixth of the yields
One-third of the yields
One-fourth of the yields

34. The Gupta Empire granted tax- free agrarian land to which of the following?

Military officials
Civil officials
Brahmins
Courts scholars

35. Which type of land was called 'Aprahat'?

Without cultivated forest land
Irrigated land
Dense forest land
Cultivated land

36. In 3rd A.D., Warangal was famous for

Copper pots
Gold Jewelleries
Iron implements
Elephant-teeth work

37. Tormad was from the racial group of

Sithian
Huna
Yaochi
Saka

38. Who amongst the following had defeated Huna ruler Mihirakula?

Budhagupta
Yashodharman
Shashanka
Prabhakaravardhana

39. The game of 'Chess' is said to have originated in

China
Iran
Indonesia
India

40. Whose contribution is there in ancient Sankhya Darshan?

Kapila
Gautam
Nagarjuna
Charvak

41. 'Sankhya' Philosophy is propoun-ded by

Gautam
Jaimini
Kapila
Patanjali

42. Who propagated 'Yoga Darshan'?

Patanjali
Gautam
Jaimini
Shankaracharya

43. The inventor of Yoga was

Aryabhatta
Charaka
Patanjali
Ramdeva

44. Which one of the following is not part of 'Ashtangayoga'?

Anusmriti
Pratyahara
Dhyana
Dharana

45. 'Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowing, for once cremated, there is no return.' This rejection of afterlife is an aphorism of the

Kapalika Sects
Sunyavada of Nagarjuna
Ajivikas
Charvakas

46. The Nyaya Philosophical system was propagated by

Charvaka
Gautama
Kapila
Jaimini

47. Author of 'Nyaya Darshan' was

Gautama
Kapila
Kanad
Jaimini

48. The founder of Nyaya Philosophy was

Kapil
Kanad
Gautam
Jaimini

49. Mimansa was initiated by

Kanad
Vasistha
Vishwamitra
Jaimini

50. The theory of Karma is related with

Nyaya
Mimansa
Mimansa
Vaisheshika

51. Which of the following schools of philosophy is of the opinion that Vedas contain the eternal truth?

Sakhya
Vaisheshika
Mimansa
Nyaya

52. Which one of the following pairs does not form part of the six systems of Indian Philosophy?

Mimansa and Vedanta
Nyaya and Vaisheshika
Lokayata and Kapalika
Sankhya and Yoga

53. The Founder of Advait Philosophy is

Sankaracharya
Ramanujacharya
Madhvacharya
Mahatma Buddha

54. By which of the following according to Advaita Vedanta, Mukti can be obtained?

Gyana
Karma
Bhakti
Yoga

55. Who among the following is called founder of Indian Atomism?

Maharshi Kapil
Maharshi Gautam
Maharshi Kanad
Maharshi Patanjali

56. The Badami rock inscription of Pulakesin I is dated in the Saka year 465. If the same were to be dated in Vikrama Samvat, the year would be

601
300
330
407

57. According to Puranas, the prime place of Chandravansh's ruler was

Kashi
Ayodhya
Pratishthanpur
Shravasti

58. The capital of Maukharri was

Thaneshwar
Kannauj
Purushpur
None of these

59. Information regarding time of Harsha is contained in the books of

Harisena
Kalhan
Kalidasa
None of these

60. Who has written the 'Harshacharita'?

Aryabhatta
Banabhatta
Vishnugupta
Parimalgupta

61. The capital of Harsha's empire was

Kannauj
Pataliputra
Prayag
Thaneshwar

62. Emperor Harsha had shifted his capital from Thaneshwar to

Prayag
Delhi
Kannauj
Rajgriha

63. Harshavardhan organised two great religious conventions in

Kannauj and Prayag
Prayag and Thaneshwar
Thaneshwar and Vallabhi
Vallabhi and Prayag

64. The place in U.P. where Harsh Vardhana organised the Buddha mega convention

Kashi
Prayag
Ayodhya
Sarnath

65. Emperor Harsha's Southward march was stopped on the Narmada river by

Pulakeshin-I
Pulakeshin-II
Vikramaditya-I
Vikramaditya-II

66. Among the following rulers who had defeated Harshavardhana?

Kirtivarman-II
Vikramaditya-II
Pulakeshin-I
Pulakeshin-II

67. The Chalukyan ruler Pulakeshin's victory over Harsha was in the year

612 A.D.
618 A.D.
622 A.D.
634 A.D.

68. Poet Bana was inhabitant of

Pataliputra
Thaneshwar
Bhojpur
None of these

69. In whose reign-period the Chinese Traveller Hiuen-Tsang visited India?

Chandragupta-II
Harsh
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta-I

70. During Hiuen Tsang tour in India most famous city for the production of cotton clothes was

Varanasi
Mathura
Pataliputra
Kanchi

71. The term 'Kausheya' has been used for

Cotton
Flax
Silk
Wool

72. Chinese traveller Hiuen-Tsang studied at the University of

Taxila
Vikramshila
Magadh
Nalanda

73. The Chinese traveller who visited Bhinmal was

Fahien
Sangyun
Hieun-Tsang
I-Tsing

74. The famous Travelogue 'Si-Yu-Ki' is linked with

Fahien
Al Biruni
Megasthenes
Hiuen-Tsang

75. Nalanda University was destroyed by

Muslims
Kushans
Sythians
Mughals

76. Nalanda Vihar was destroyed by

Bakhtiyar Khalji
Qutubddin Aibak
Muhammad Bin Tuglaq
Alauddin Khalji

77. The most ancient monastery in India is

Nalanda
Udantpuri
Vikramshila
Bhaja

78. Nalanda is located in

Madhya Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar

79. During Post Gupta Period, main business centre was

Kannauj
Ujjain
Dhar
Devgiri

80. The Chinese Pilgrim who visited India in the early 6th century was

Ywan Chwang
Fahien
Sung Yun
I-Tsing

81. Which of the following is not included in Chardham?

Puri
Dwarka
Mansarovar
Rameshwaram