Anicent History MCQ part 4 301 - 400 page 54
301. Which of the following are essentially books of rituals?
(d) The Brahmanas
302. The concluding portions of the Brahmanas are called the
(d) Satpathas
303. What does the Yajur Veda contain?
(c) Hymns and rituals
304. The Mahajanapada that acquired prominence to become an empire was that of
(a) Magadha
305. Which of the following forms of land tenure denoted an entire village being donated to
Brahmins?
(c) Brahmadeya
306. What did the Devadana type of a land tenure signify?
(c) Villages donated to the gods
307. Which of the following is not famous for temples marked by erotic sculptures?
(c) Halebid
308. What was the extent of Harsha's empire?
(d) A part of northern India
309. The Rigvedic Aryans were governed by a
(c) Monarchical government
310. The most Important cause of the downfall of the Gupta empire was/were
(d) Revolt and declaration of independence by principal chiefs
311. What is the present name of Dwara Samudra, the ancient capital of the Hoysalas?
(b) Halebid
312. In which century did the first movement against vedic ritualistic practices start?
(d) 600 BC
313. The Ajanta cave paintings mostly belong to the period of the
(d) Guptas
314. Which of the following rulers had reigned in the third century BC?
(b) Ashoka
315. Who was the founder of the Sankhya School of philosophy?
(d) Kapila
316. Which of the following is regarded by historians as a crucial stage In describing the
progress of civilization?
(c) Agriculture
317. Where in India have traces of megalithic culture predominantly been found?
(a) Southern India
318. Who is credited with having written the immortal classic treatise Raja Yoga Sutras
(Aphorisms on Meditation)?
(c) Patanjali
319. The earlier Buddhist sculptures had shied away from depicting the image of the
Buddha, except through such symbols as
(a) Footprints
(b) The Bodhi Tree
(c) Stupas
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
320. Of the following dynasties, only the dynasty was not a patron of temple architecture?
(b) Yadava
321. Which of the following is not an important work of Kalidasa?
(c) Gita Govinda
322. Who was not among the scholars patronized by Kanishka?
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(b) Birbal
323. Which of the following is not a category into which Ashoka's monuments may be
grouped?
(c) Viharas
324. Which important industry show signs of having thrived in Lothal?
(b) Shipbuilding
325. The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjo-Daro site of the Indus Valley
Civilization was
(d) Rakhal Das Banerji
326. Which of the following Indus Valley sites is presently in Pakistan?
(b) Harappa
327. The Harappan site that had a dock is
(c) Lothal
328. Which one of the Chola Kings conquered Ceylon?
(d) Vijayalaya
329. Which of the following was not an Indus Valley site?
(a) Pataliputra
330. The Vedic deity Indra was the god of
(b) Rain and Thunder
331. The Atharva Veda does not discuss the ideal of
(d) Moksha
332. The institution of varna appeared in the
(a) Rigvedic period
333. The Aryans did not practise the craftsmanship of
(c) Jewellery
334. The only Veda to have been rendered musically is
(b) The Sama Veda
335. What is the first discourse that the Buddha had delivered at the Deer Park in Sarnath
called?
(d) Dharmachakrapravartan
336. Name the ruler whose patronage had been enjoyed by Jainism.
(b) Kharavela
337. The famous Indo-Greek king to embrace Buddhism was
(c) Menander
338. To whom is the introduction of Buddhism into China traditionally attributed?
(d) Kashyapa Matanga
339. Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the
Buddha preaching their respective doctrines?
(b) Bimbisara
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340. Where was Mahavira born?
(b) Vaishali
341. The oldest Jain scriptures are regarded to be the
(c) Twelve Angas
342. Who among the following rulers had embraced Jainism?
(a) Chandragupta Maurya
343. The original teachings of Mahavira are contained in the
(c) Purvas
344. Which of the following rulers did not enter the Buddhist Cold?
(b) Samudragupta
345. In Sanskrit plays written during the Gupta period, women and Sudras speak
(c) Prakrit
346. According to tradition, a mighty king In India in the fourth century BC had been raised
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to power by a Taxila brahmin, named
(a) Chanakya
347. Who had established the four Mathas or Monastic seats in the four corners of India?
(b) Shankaracharya
348. The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was
(b) Jana
349. The Svetambaras and Digambaras refer to two sects of
(d) Jainism
350. According to the Mimansa School of Philosophy, liberation is possible through
(c) Karma
351. The great Hindu law giver was
(a) Manu
352. During whose reign did Buddhism become the state religion?
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(d) Ashoka
353. The correct chronological order of the four Buddhist councils held Is
(c) Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir or Jullandhar
354. The fourth Buddhist council had compiled an encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy,
called
(d) Mahavibhasha Sutra
355. Who had converted Kanishka to Buddhism?
(c) Asvaghosha
356. Buddhism was first propagated outside India In
(d) Ceylon
357. The language adopted for preaching In Mahayana Buddhism was
(c) Sanskrit
358. Who is said to have both been born and shed his body on the Vaishakha Purnima day?
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(d) The Buddha
359. The Indus Valley civilisation was discovered in the year
(b) 1921
360. During the Gupta period, the village affairs were managed by the village headman
with the assistance of the
(c) Vishyapati
361. An important part of the eastern court during the Gupta period was
(b) Tamralipti
362. The Sunga dynasty had made ____ the official religion of their kingdom.
(d) Brahmanism
363. Most of the Hindu colonies in South East Asia had been found during the reign of the
(d) Cholas
364. The Saka era started from the year
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(c) 78 AD
365. Which Gupta ruler had led a campaign to the south, besides being an accomplished
veena player?
(b) Samudragupta
366. Who among the following has been called the 'Napoleon of India'?
(a) Samudragupta
367. Ashoka's prime claim to greatness lay in
(b) The promotion of people's welfare by him
368. The achievements of Samudragupta have been chronicled in the
(d) Allahabad pillar inscription
369. The sage who is considered to have Aryanised southern India was
(c) Agastya
370. The Chola ruler who had subdued the Ganges and obtained the title 'Gangai Konda
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Cholan' was
(b) Rajendra Chola I
371. The dynasty that excelled itself as a naval power was that of the
(c) Cholas
372. Which Chola ruler had conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a
province of his empire?
(d) Rajaraja Chola I
373. The ancient, medical treatise, Charaka Samhita is attributed to Charaka, who was a
contemporary of
(a) Kanishka
374. Who among the following are credited with having built the famous Ellora Caves?
(c) The Rashtrakutas
375. The caves and rock cut temples at Ellora pertain to
(a) Hinduism
(b) Buddhism
(c) Jainism
(d) All of the above
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Ans: (d)
376. The cult of Krishna is primarily exhibited through the
(b) Rajasthani school of art
377. In which of the following caves have 28 new caves been further discovered?
(c) Elephanta Caves
378. The Pallava kings were the makers of the rock-cut temples at
(b) Mahabalipuram
379. The Cresco paintings of Ajanta caves illustrate the art of the
(a) Guptas
380. Which is the oldest Indian linguistic text?
(c) Ashtadhyayi
381. Which of the following is the oldest seat of learning?
(c) Taxila
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382. The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains ______ chapters and ______Sanskrit slokas or
couplets.
(c) 18,700
383. The Ramayana narrates events believed to have taken place in the ______ Yuga or
age.
(d) Treta
384. Who among the following anticipated Newton by affirming that all things tended to
gravitate to the earth?
(b) Brahmagupta
385. In ancient India, Nalanda University represented a great centre for the study of
(a) Mahayana Buddhism
386. Who is the author of Kadambari, from among the following?
(d) Bana
387. Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas?
(c) Vyasa
388. To whom did the term 'Macedonia's madaman' refer?
(a) Alexander
389. The bronze coins of Natraja or Dancing Shiva during the Chola period invariably
depicted the deity with _____ arms.
(b) Six
390. The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the _____ art?
(c) Gupta
391. Identify the temple, from among the Collowing, that was built by the Rashtrakutas?
(d) The Shiva Temple, Ellora
392. The earliest surviving extant, i.e. still standing, temples date from the ______ period?
(a) Gupta
393. Which of the following sets of books and authors has been incorrectly matched?
(b)
394. An elaborate system of municipal administration had been established by
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
395. During the period of Hiuen Tsang's visit, the city most famous for the production of
cotton cloth was
(c) Mathura
396. Foreigners were absorbed in a large number in the Indian society during the period?
(c) Mauryan
397. Of the following books and their respective fields, which of the combinations is
incorrect?
(a) Charaka Samhita - Architecture
398. The chief impact of vedic culture on Indian history has been
(d) The consolidation of the caste system
399. The original Buddhist religious texts had been written in
(c) Pali
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400. The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been
(b) Ashvaghosha
