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Question Answer Set - 12 for WBPSC/RAIL/SSC/WBCS

51. Who was the Prime Minister of Chandragupta

Maurya?

(a) Kautilya (b) Megasthenese

52. The main officer of town in Mauryan empire was

called by Megasthenes as

(a) Astyonmoi (b) Agronomoi

53. Who of the following also had the name Devanama

Priyadasi?

(a) Chandragupta Maurya

(b) Ashoka

(d) Harsha

54. The division of Mauryan society into seven classes

was particularly mentioned in

(a) Mudrarakshasa (b) Purans

55. Kautilya’s Arthashastra deals with the aspects of

(a) Economic life (b) Religious life

56. Who of the following was known as Amitrochates?

(a) Chandragupta Maurya

(b) Bindusar

(d) Kautilya

57. Who built the city of Shrinagar in Kashmir?

(a) Porus

(b) Chandragupta Maurya

(d) Kanishka

58. Where did Ashoka send his son Mahendra as a

Buddhist missionary to ?

(a) Ceylon (b) Nepal

59. How many Tirthas were mentioned in Arthashastra?

(a) 16 (b) 18

60. In Arthashastra, the superintendent of commerce is

known as

(a) Panyadhyaksha (b) Samsthadhyaksha

61. Who of the following historical personalities of

India is also known as Vishnugupta?

(a) Bindusara (b) Kunala

62. Which rock edict of Ashoka provides a description

of the horrors of Kalinga war?

(a) Kalinga Edict (b) 11th Rock Edict

63. Which of the following Indian kings defeated

Seleucus, the administrator of Sindha and

Afghanistan?

(a) Chandragupta (b) Ashoka

64. Who was the writer of Mudrarakshasa?

(a) Kautilya (b) Pushyagupta

65. Which of the following languages is used in the

inscriptions of Ashoka?

(a) Pali (b) Prakrit

66. The most famous educational centre during the

period of Mauryan age was

(a) Nalanda (b) Vaishali

67. Who constructed the 84 thousands Stupa?

(a) Ashoka (b) Pushyamitra

68. The third Buddhist council during the reign of

Ashoka was held at

(a) Rajgriha (b) Vaishali

69. Chanakya, the famous teacher of Chandragupta

Maurya, was associated with

(a) Nalanda (b) Vaishali

70. The last Mauryan emperor was

(a) Kunal (b) Jalok

71. Who of the following has mentioned on the

absence of slavery in Maurya period?

(a) Megasthenes (b) Kautilya

72. During the reign of Ashoka the huge Maurya

empire divided into

(a) Four Provinces (b) Five Provinces

73. In Maurya empire, province was known as

(a) Chakra (b) Mandal

74. Which of the following taxes was paid in cash?

(a) Bhaga (b) Hiranya

75. Visti signifies

(a) Religious tax (b) Irrigation tax

76. Who was the founder of Sunga dynasty?

(a) Pushyagupta (b) Pushyamitra

77. Which of the following dynasties was characterised

by its metronymics?

(a) Kushana (b) Kanva

78. Which was the capital of Kanishka?

(a) Mathura (b) Pataliputra

79. Charaka was the famous court physician of

(a) Kanishka (b) Pushyamitra

80. Which Chinese general defeated Kanishka?

(a) Pan Chao (b) Pan Yang

81. Who was called by Vindhya Adhipati?

(a) Simuka (b) Gautamiputra

82. A Buddhist council during the reign of Kanishka

was held at

(a) Mathura (b) Rajgriha

83. Who was the founder of Kushan dynasty?

(a) Vim Kadphises (b) Kujul Kadaphises

84. Vijayapuri the capital of Ikshvakus is represented

(a) Madurai (b) Kanheri

85. The official language of the Satvahanas was

(a) Prakrit (b) Sanskrit

86. The Greek envoy Heliodorus of the Besnagar

inscription was sent by the Indo-Greek ruler

(a) Demetrius (b) Menander

87. Which God is depicted on the Yaudheya coins?

(a) Indra (b) Shiva

88. A Kushan Devakula was found in the vicinity of

(a) Jalandhar (b) Sialkot

89. Who of the following had issued gold coins for

the first time?

(a) Kujula Kadphises (b) Vima Kadphises

90. Who said, “Rome is being drained of its treasure

by trading with India” ?

(a) Pliny (b) Arrian

Answer Key :

54. (d) The division of Mauryan society into seven

classes was particularly mentioned in the ‘Indica’ of

Megasthenes.

55. (d) Kautilya’s Arthashastra is the most important

work on Public Administration in ancient India. It

deals with different aspects of management which

include strategic management, financial management,

accounting, human resource management, corporate

governance, social responsibility, etc.

56. (b) Bindusara was the son of the first Mauryan

Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. The Greeks called

him Amitrochates or Allitrochades.

57. (c) Srinagar was founded more than 2000 years ago,

around the 3rd century BC, by King Pravarasena. It

soon became part of the Mauryan Empire, one of

the largest empires in India at the time. The ruling

Mauryan emperor Ashoka built the city of Srinagari

(Srinagar).

58. (a) Ashoka sent missionaries to neighbouring states

and even to foreign lands. According to tradition,

the Ceylonese mission was sent under Ashoka’s son

Mahendra and daughter Sanghamitra.

60. (a) Kautiyla talked of the various heads of

the different branches of the civil service. The

superintendent of trade (Panyadhyaksha) was to

head the commercial service, including internal and

external trade.

63. (a) Chandragupta Maurya stretched his empire

from Karnataka to Afghanistan and from the river

Indus to Bengal. He attacked the Greek Governor

of Punjab, Seleucus Nikator and defeated him.

There was subsequently a treaty between the two

whereby, Seleucus ceded Punjab and Sindh to

Chandragupta and also gave his daughter in marriage

to Chandragupta.

64. (d) The Mudrarakshasa is a historical play in

Sanskrit by Vishakhadatta that narrates the ascent of

the king Chandragupta Maurya to power in India.

67. (a) In 3rd century BCE, the great emperor of

Magadha Ashoka started to build thousands of Stupas

all over the Indian subcontinent and South Asia. It is

said that 84 thousand Stupas were built by Ashoka

edicts and guidance.

68. (c) According to the Theravada commentaries and

chronicles, the Third Buddhist Council was convened

by the Mauryan king Ashoka at Pataliputra, under the

leadership of the monk Moggaliputta Tissa.

69. (c) Chanakya was a famous Indian teacher, who

taught in Takshashila, an ancient Indian university.

Later, he became royal advisor to the Maurya empire

and helped the mighty ruler Chandragupta Maurya to

establish the Maurya empire by defeating the Nanda

empire.

70. (d) Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the

Mauryan dynasty. He ruled from 187–180 BC. He

was killed by his senapati (commander-in-chief),

Pushyamitra Sunga.

74. (b) Hiranya appears as an item of revenue in the

land-grants of the period. Hiranya is taken to be the

usual taxes paid in cash or in metallic money.

POST-MAURYA PERIOD

76. (b) Pushyamitra Sunga was the founder and first

King of the Sunga Dynasty in Northern India.

77. (d) Metronymics is a name derived from the name

of a mother or female ancestor. The metronymics are

borne by the later Satavahanas and not by the early

Satavahanas. It was mainly because Satavahanas had

to establish matrimonial alliance with maharathis.

The metronymics of the Satavahanas was the result

of such alliances.

78. (c) Kanishka was the king of the Kushan dynasty

that ruled over the northern part of the Indian

subcontinent, Afghanistan, and possibly regions

north of Kashmir in Central Asia. His territory was

administered from two capitals Purushapura (now

Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan) and Mathura,

in northern India.

79. (c) Charaka was an Ayurvedic physician lived in

the period between the third and second Centuries

BC. He was the court physician of the Buddhist king

Kanishka.

80. (a) Chinese annals tell the story of a Kushana king

who was defeated by the General Pan Chao, towards

the end of the first century AD.

81. (b) Gautamiputra Satkarni was called by Vindhya

Adhipati because his kingdom included the territories

of Asika, Assaka, Mulaka, Saurashtra, Kukura,

Aparanta, Anupa, Vidarbha, Akara and Avanti and

the mountainous regions of Vindhya.

82. (d) The Kushana period saw a great resurgence of

Buddhism in Kashmir, especially during the reign of

Kanishka. The fourth Buddhist Council was held in

Kashmir, under the presidency of Katyayaniputra,

in Kanishka’s time. The south Indian Buddhist

philosopher Nagarjuna lived in Kashmir during the

Kushana period.

83. (b) Kujula Kadphises (30–80 AD) established the

Kushan dynasty in 78 AD by taking advantage of

disunion in existing dynasty of Pahalava (Parthian)

and Scytho-Parthians, and gradually wrested control

of southern prosperous region, which is the northwest

part of ancient India, traditionally known as Gandhar

(now in Pakistan).

84. (c) Ikshvakus were one of the earliest recorded

ruling dynasties of the Krishna-Guntur regions

of Andhra Pradesh. Their capital Vijayapuri is

represented by Nagarjunakonda.

85. (a) Prakrit is a language of ancient and medieval

India which is the ancestor of Marathi, Konkani,

Sinhala and Maldivian. It was used in numerous

works of literature and its literary use was made

famous by the Sanskrit playwright Kalidasa. Prakrit

was commonly spoken until AD 875 and was the

official language of the Satavahana dynasty.

86. (c) An important Prakrit inscription at Besnagar of

the late 2nd century BCE, inscribed at the instance

of Heliodorus, a Greek envoy of Indo-Greek

ruler Antialcidas to the court of the Sunga king

Bhagabhadra.

87. (d) The coins of the Yaudheyas were influenced

in design and motif by the coins of the Kushanas.

Kumara Kartikeya was depicted on the most of the

Yaudheya coins.

88. (c) The family temple (Devakula in Sanskrit) of

the Kushan royal family was where patron deity or

deities of the Kushanas should be worshipped. Two

Devakulas so far discovered, one at Surkh Kotal

in South Bactria (Afghanistan) and another one at

Mat near Mathura in north India. The Devakulas

contained sculptures of Kushan rulers Kanishka and

others.

89. (b) Vima Kadphises was the Kushan emperor to first

introduce gold coinage, in addition to the existing

copper and silver coinage. The gold weight standard

of approximately eight grams.

90. (a) Pliny the Elder, in 77 CE, called “Rome is being

drained of its treasure by trading with India” because

Roman senators complained that their women used

too many Indian spices and luxuries, which drained

the Roman Empire of precious metal like gold.

Question Answer Set - 12 for WBPSC/RAIL/SSC/WBCS

Question Answer Set - 12 for WBPSC/RAIL/SSC/WBCS

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