MAURYAS

Question 1

Greek scholars called
Chandragupta Maurya
Bindusara

Answer 1

Chandragupta Maurya-Sandrocottus
Bindusara–Amitrochates

Question 2

Ashoka Kalinga War

Answer 2

261 BC in Odisha

Question 3

Which person influenced Ashoka to follow Buddhism

Answer 3

Upagupta

Question 4

Who was the famous teacher of Chandragupta Maurya?
Associated with which centre of learning?

Answer 4

Chanakya

Thakshashila University

Question 5

Who where the first king to issue Gold coins in India?

Answer 5

Indo Greeks

Question 6

Which Dynasty is called as Andras in Puranas?

Who established?

Answer 6

Satavahana Dynasty

SIMUKA

Question 7

Menander was converted to Buddhism by the influence of

Answer 7

Naga Sena

Question 8

What was the function of an officer called Samaharta?

Reserve the state treasury
Tax assessment
Security assurance
To correspond

Answer 8

Tax assessment

Officers during the Mauryan administration

Shulkadhyaksha-Officer in charge of Royal income
Koshadhyaksha-treasury officer
Lakshnadhaksha-Coin minting
Rajjukas-land measurer
Yukta-sub ordinate revenue officer
Sannidata-treasury head
Panyadhyaksha-office of commerce department

Question 9

Who send the greek ambassador Megasthenese to Chandragupta Maurya Court

Answer 9

Selecus Nikator

Question 10

Alexander four generals

Answer 10

Selecus Nikator
Ptolemy
Cassander
Antigonus

Question 11

Emperor, Ashoka conquered Kalinga, after how many years of his coronation

Answer 11

8 years

Question 12

How many classes of India Society arr mentioned in Megasthenese book Indica?

Answer 12

7

Question 13

According to Artha Sastra, the commanding officer of cavalry in the Mauryan administration is

Answer 13

Aswadyaksha

Officers in Mauryan empire

Pinnacle 107 question

Question 14

Nagarjuna caves were donated to which of the sets by Maurya

Answer 14

Ajivika sect

Founded by Goshala Maskariputra

Question 15

Which is not a provincial centre in the Magadha empire
Tosali
Ujjain
Taxila
Indraprastha

Answer 15

Indraprastha

Question 16

Capital of Kalinga

Answer 16

Toshli

Kalinga is the ancient name of coastal Orissa

Question 17

How many political centres were there in the Mauryan Empire

Answer 17

3

Question 18

Southern most city of Maurya

Answer 18

Brahmagiri

Question 19

In which place Ashoka inscription does not contain

Answer 19

Sanchi

Question 20

Which is the longest Ashoka pillar and its importance

Answer 20

Seventh pillar

Mention Dhamma Mahamattas

Question 21

Oldest rock cut caves in India by Mauryas

Answer 21

Barabar and Nagarjuna caves in Bihar

Question 22

About_________ years ago great wall of China was built before the time of Mauryan empire

Answer 22

2400

Built by Qin Shi Huang in 221BC

Question 23

Who is Indian Machiaveli?

Who is Sandrokotus and is also called?

Ambassador of Bindusara?

Answer 23

Kautalya

Chandragupta Maurya - Follower of Jainism

Deimachus

Question 24

Ashoka appointed who to solve the social problems in his region

Answer 24

Dhamma Mahamattas

Question 25

Language used in Ashoka’s inscription Most of Ashoka’s inscription where written in which script

Answer 25

Prakrit Brahmi

Question 26

First king to have a standing army

Answer 26

Bimbisara

Question 27

First tangible evidence of Buddhism

Answer 27

Ashoka’s inscription There are 14 major rock edicts, 15 minor rock edicts and 7 pillar inscription

Question 28

A type of court called **Kantakasodhan** was prevalent in which empire and is known as

Answer 28

Mauryan empire Removal of the thorns

Question 29

Who published a set of Ashokan inscription in 1877

Answer 29

Alexander Cunningham

Question 30

Which empire used elephants in war on a large scale for the first time?

Answer 30

Magadhan Empire

Question 31

In Indian history, who were referred to as the **Atavika Rajya**

Answer 31

Forest kingdom

Question 32

Which of the following was not a type of sacrifice performed by kings in ancient India to establish their position? Vajapeya Rajasuya Asvamedha Muvendavelan

Answer 32

Muvendavelan-prominent military officer in the chola empire

Question 33

The author of Arthasatra was a contemporary

Answer 33

Chandragupta Maurya

Question 34

Up to where did Chandra Gupta Maurya’s empire extended in the north-west

Answer 34

Indus River

Question 35

With which centre of learning Chanakya, the famous teacher of Chandragupta Maurya was associated

Answer 35

Thakshashila

Question 36

The original founder of Kautilya’s Artha Sastra

Answer 36

R Shamashastri

Question 37

Kautilya’s Artha Sastra mainly deals with

Answer 37

Political statecraft

Question 38

Bindusara send Ashoka to quell the rebellion in

Answer 38

Ujjain,Taxila

Question 39

In which part of Ashoka‘s empire where his inscriptions written in kharosthi scripture

Answer 39

North western

Question 40

What would be the most accurate description of the mauryan monarchy under Ashoka

Answer 40

Enlightened despotism

Question 41

Which are the animals carved on the Sarnath pillar

Answer 41

Elephant East Horse West Lion north Bull South

Question 42

Under mauryan administration, the Sitadhyaksha was is the officer in charge of

Answer 42

Agriculture

Question 43

A pillar containing inscriptions from three different periods that is the Mauryan period, Gupta period and the Mughal period is located at

Answer 43

Allahabad Prayagraj

Question 44

Who originally built the famous Buddhist Sanchi Stupa?

Answer 44

Ashoka

Question 45

Dhamek stupa at Sarnath was built by

Answer 45

Ashoka

Question 46

Thakshashila University was located between which two rivers

Answer 46

Indus and Jhelum

Question 47

Which king inscribed the Hathigumpha(Elephant cave) inscription in Udayagiri Hills

Answer 47

Kharavela

Question 48

Who was the ruler of Kalinga?

Answer 48

Kharavela

Question 49

The ancient name of coastal Odisha

Answer 49

Kalinga

Question 50

The Barabar caves belong to which period

Answer 50

Mauryan Empire

Question 51

Which pillars represent the Rock pilllars

Answer 51

Mauryan Pillar

Question 52

What was only the authority of the state in the period of Maurya

Answer 52

Mines

Question 53

In which state is the Jaugada Rock edict of Ashoka is located

Answer 53

Odisha

Question 54

The state Chandragupta 1 got in dowry from Licchavi

Answer 54

Pataliputra

Question 55

Capital of Mauryan empire

Answer 55

Pataliputra

Question 56

The lion placed at the Sarnath was originally which material

Answer 56

Stone

Question 57

Who was the contemporary ruler of Emperor Asoka in Sri Lanka?

Answer 57

Tissa

Question 58

The famous chauri-bearer statue found at Didarganj Bihar is classified as belonging to the________ period

Answer 58

Mauryan

Question 59

The artificial reservoir Sudarshana Lake built bye Maurya located in which state

Answer 59

Gujarat

Question 60

What was the capital of the eastern India province of the Mauryan empire

Answer 60

Tosali

Question 61

Carving in the famous Ajanta caves was first started during the reign of which Dynasty

Answer 61

Satavahana

Question 62

The rulers of which Dynasty started the practice of granting taxes free villages to Brahmanas and Buddhist monks

Answer 62

Satavahana

Question 63

Satavahana minted their coins predominantly in

Answer 63

Lead

Question 64

With whom is Junagarh rock inscription associated

Answer 64

Rudradaman

Question 65

St Thomas is said to come to India to propagate Christianity during the reign of

Answer 65

Parthians-Gondapharnese

Question 66

Founder of Kushan Dynasty

Answer 66

Kujula Kadaphises

Question 67

Importance of A.D. 78

Answer 67

Kanishkan became king Starting of new calendar Saka era

Question 68

Charla was the famous court physician of

Answer 68

Kanishkan

Question 69

The greatest silk route to the Indians was opened by

Answer 69

Kanishkan

Question 70

Capital of Kanishka

Answer 70

Purashapura

Question 71

The Gandhara style of sculpture during Kushan period is a combination of style

Answer 71

Indo-Greek style

Question 72

Which museum house is the largest collection of Kushan sculpture

Answer 72

Mathura museum

Question 73

First to issue gold coins in India

Answer 73

Kushans

Question 74

Founder of Vakataka Dynasty

Answer 74

Vindhyashkati

Question 75

In which state Amravati school situated?

Answer 75

Andhra

Question 76

For which ruler Ekabrahmana has been used

Answer 76

Gautamiputra Satakarni

Question 77

Who was the founder of Pala dynastic?

Answer 77

Gopala

Question 78

Which rulers was closely associated with Yuehzni nomadic people

Answer 78

Kushan

Question 79

Which Dynasty had developed the Gandara school of art in ancient India

Answer 79

Kushana Dynasty

Question 80

Father of surgery Father of plastic surgery and Ayurveda The name Ayurveda was given by

Answer 80

Sushruta Charaka Atreya

Question 81

Sushruta Samhita deals with the

Answer 81

Medicine and surgery

Question 82

Pratihara Rashtrakuta and Pala fought for

Answer 82

Kannauj

Question 83

King Rudradaman belonged to which period

Answer 83

Shaka Era

Question 84

When did Vikrama Era begin

Answer 84

57 BC

Question 85

Which one of the following was not a characteristic of society in Mauryan empire Slavery Rigidity of caste Prostitution Widow remarriage

Answer 85

Widow remarriage

Question 86

The most commonly used coin during the Mauryan Period?

Answer 86

Karashopana

Question 87

Court physician of Kanishkan

Answer 87

Charakan

Question 88

Chandragupta Maurya was born in which year and place

Answer 88

Chandragupta Maurya was born in 340 BC in Bihar

Question 89

Official language of Mauryan court

Answer 89

Magadhi

Question 90

The monk who accompanied Chandragupta Maurya to South India

Answer 90

Bhadra Bahu

Question 91

In which inscription of Ashoka his name has been mentioned

Answer 91

Maski Inscription

Question 92

Who helped Ashoka during his visit to Upanidvihara

Answer 92

Samba

Question 93

By what name Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscription

Answer 93

Priyadarshi

Question 94

The Saka ruler who take a bow not to kill man except in battle

Answer 94

Nahapana

Question 95

First introduce Gold coins on a significant scale

Answer 95

Vima Kadphises

Question 96

After the decline of Kushan empire Pataliputra come under the hands of which Dynasty

Answer 96

Scythians

Question 97

The main feature of Kshatrapal form of governance in the Shaka Empire was

Answer 97

Joint Rule of Mahakshatrapa and a Kshatrapa

Question 98

Language used in Satavahana court

Answer 98

Prakrit

Question 99

Which inscription informs about the marriage of the daughter of Rudradaman with Vashishthiputra Pulumavi

Answer 99

Girnar Inscription

Question 100

What is the most important primary source for the study of Indo Greeks?

Answer 100

Coins

Question 101

Kadamba Dynasty situated in which state

Answer 101

Karnataka

Question 102

Prayag Prashasti was composed in

Answer 102

Sanskrit

Question 103

Which of the following places is not a find a sport of major or rock addicts of Asoka? Sopara Manshera Bhabru Jaugada

Answer 103

Bhabru

Question 104

Not a rock edict in Karnataka Maski Gavimath Rupnath Brahmagiri

Answer 104

Rupnath in Mandya Pradesh

Question 105

Two different scripts used in Kandahar rock inscribe

Answer 105

Greek and Aramic

Question 106

Kandahar rock edict was discovered in which year

Answer 106

1958

Question 107

Tax levied on pilgrims in the Mauryan Empire

Answer 107

Yatravetana