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1. Daskumar Charitan was composed by

Surdas
Dandin
Tulsidas
Kalidas

2. 'Kumarasambhava' an epic poem was composed by

Banabhatta
Chand Bardai
Harishena
Kalidasa

3. The title 'Father of History' rightly belongs to

Herodotus
Euripides
Thucydides
Socrates

4. Who of the following was the writer of Mudrarakshasa?

Ashwaghosha
Vishakhadatta
Kalidasa
Bhas

5. Which of the following drama was not written by Kalidas?

Malavikagnimitram
Abhigyan Shakuntalam
Kumarsambhavam
Janaki haranam

6. What is the name of Kalhana's book?

Arthashastra
Indica
Purana
Rajatarangini

7. 'Rajatarangini' written by Kalhan is associated with which of the following?

Chandragupta's reign
Anthology of lyrics
History of Kashmir
Reign of Krishna Deva Raya

8. 'Ashtadhyayi' was written by

Vedavyas
Panini
Shukhadeva
Valmiki

9. Charaka Samhita is related to which of the following subject?

Arthashastra
Politics
Medicine
Religion

10. The Panchasiddhantika of Varahamihira is based upon

Persian astronomy
Greek astronomy
Iranian astronomy
Mesopotamian astronomy

11. Which one of the following is not correcly matched?

Kalidasa : Raghuvansa
Bhasa : Svapna Vasavadattam
Subandhu : Kadambari
Harsha : Ratnavali

12. Milindapanha' is a

Sanskrit drama
Jain chronicle
Pali text
Persian epic

13. Buddhist text 'Milindapanha' throws light on which Indo-Greek ruler?

Diodorus-II
Demetrius
Menander
Strato-I

14. Milindapanha is in the form of a dialogue between King Menander and Buddhist monk

Nagarjuna
Nagabhatta
Nagasena
Kumarilabhatta

15. Name the source that is silent about the trade routes of ancient India

Sangam Sahitya
Milindpanha
Jataka Tales
All of the above

16. The contemporary ruler of Kalhana, the author of Rajatarangini was

Jai Singh
Harsha
Govindchandra
Jayachandra

17. How many Tarangas are in Rajtarangini of Kalhana?

Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven

18. Who among the following continued the Rajtarangini of Kalhana?

Bilhana and Merutunga
Bilhana and Mammata
Jonaraja and Merutunga
Jonaraja and Srivara

19. Saundarananda was the composition of

Asvaghosa
Banabhatta
Bhavbhuti
Bhaas

20. 'Nagananda', 'Ratnavali' and 'Priyadarshika' was written by

Bana Bhatta
Vishakha Datta
Vatsyayan
Harshavardhana

21. Among the four works mentioned below which one is encyclopedic in nature?

Amarakosha
Siddhantasiromani
Brihat Samhita
Ashtangahidayam

22. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched?

Karpurmanjari : Harsha
Malavikagnimitra : Kalidasa
Mudrarakshasa : Vishakhadatta
Saundarananda : Asvaghosha

23. Who wrote 'Shakuntalam'?

Bana Bhatt
Ved Vyas
Kalidasa
Bhavabhuti

24. Which of the following is not a literary masterpiece of Kalidasa?

Mrichchhakatikam
Meghduta
Ritu Sanghar
Vikramorvasiyam

25. The protagonist of the Play 'Malvikagnimitra' written by Kalidasa is

Pushyamitra Shunga
Gautamiputra Satakarni
Agnimitra
Chandragupta-II

26. Which one of the following books of ancient India has the love story of the son of the founder of Sunga dynasty?

Swapnavasavadatta
Malavikagnimitra
Meghadoota
Ratnavali

27. The author of 'Swapnavasavadatta' is

Kalidasa
Bhasa
Bhavabhuti
Rajshekhara

28. Who is the author of 'Geet Govind'?

Jayadeva
Surdas
Kesav
Mira

29. Whose court was embellished by 'Jaydev' composer of Geet Govind?

Dharmapala
Devpala
Vijayasen
Lakshmana Sen

30. Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits. This is stated in which of the following book?

Astadhyayi
Mahabhasya
Geeta
Mahabharata

31. In which epic it was told 'what is here is also found elsewhere, but if not here is found nowhere else'?

Ramayana
Mahabharata
Geeta
Rajtarangini

32. Which ancient Indian book has been translated into 15 (fifteen) Indian and 40 (forty) foreign languages?

Hitopadesha
Panchatantra
Katha Saritsagar
Shakuntala

33. 'Panchatantra' was originally written by

Kalidasa
Vishnu Sharma
Tulsidas
Raidas

34. Who of the following is especially known for his contribution in the field of Algebra?

Aryabhatta
Brahmagupta
Bhaskar
Lall

35. Lilavathi, a treatise on Mathe-matics, was written by

Ramanuj
Kautilya
Amartya Sen
Bhaskaracharya

36. Aryabhatta was

Indian Politician
Indian Mathematician and Astronomer
Indian Sanskrit Scholar and Poet
None of the above

37. Which one of the following Indian Mathematician invented decimal place value?

Bhaskar
Varahmihira
Brahmagupta
Aryabhatta

38. Who was the author of 'Matta Vilasa Prahasana'?

Gautamiputra Satakarni
Mahakshatrap Rudradaman
Mahendra Varman
Pulakesin-II

39. 'Manusmriti' is mainly related to

Social System
Law
Economics
Working method of State

40. The great lawgiver of ancient times was

Ashoka
Arya Bhatta
Manu
Vatsyayan

41. 'Zero' was discovered by

Aryabhatta
Varahmihira
Bhaskar-I
An anonymous Indian

42. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Life of Hiuen Tsang : Hui-li
The Natural History : Ptolemy
The Histories : Herodotus
Historial Philippical : Pompeius

43. The most ancient musical instrument in given option is

Sitar
Veena
Sarod
Tabla