INDIAN HISTORY || ANCIENT INDIA || PART 4 OF 5 ||
1.
The brahmanas
are essentially books of rituals.
2.
The concluding portions of the
brahmanas are called satpathas.
3.
Yajur veda contains hymns and rituals.
4.
The mahajanapada that acquired to
become an empire was Magadha.
5.
Brahmadeya
forms of land tenure denoted an entire village being to Brahmins.
6.
The devadana type of a land tenure signify villages donated to the gods.
7.
Khajuraho, Madhurai, Konark
are the famous for temples marked by erotic sculptures.
8.
A part of northern India are the part of harsha empire.
9.
The rigvedic Aryans are governed by a monarchical government.
10.
The most important cause of the
downfall of the gupta empire were revolt and
declaration of independence by principal chiefs.
11.
Halebid is
the present name of the dwara samudra, the ancient capital of the hoysalas.
12.
600 BC
the first movement against vedic ritualistic practices start.
13.
The ajanta cave paintings mostly
belong to the period of the guptas.
14.
Ashoka had reigned in the 3rd
century BC.
15.
Kapila was
the founder of the sankhya school of philosophy.
16.
Agriculture is
regarded by historians as crucial stage in describing the progress of civilization.
17.
Southern India have
traces of megalithic culture predominantly been found.
18.
Patanjali is
credited with having written the immotal treatise raja yoga sutras(aphorisms on
meditation).
19.
The earlier Buddhist sculptures had
shied away from deplicating the image of the Buddha, except through footprints, the Bodhi tree, stupas.
20.
Paramar, chalukya, chandelle
a patron of temple architecture.
21.
Shakuntala, kumarasambhava,
meghadoot an important work of Kalidasa.
22.
Parsva, ashvaghosha,
nagarjuna scholars patronized by kanishka.
23.
Stupas, pillers, caves a
category into ashoka monuments.
24.
Shipbuilding industry
show signs of having thrived in lothal.
25.
The archaeologist to initially
discover the mohenjo-daro of the indus valley civilization was Rakhal Das Banerji.
26.
Harappa indus
valley site is presently in Pakistan.
27.
The harappan site that has a dock is lothal.
28.
Vijayalaya the
chola king conquered Ceylon.
29.
Rangpur, sukatagendor, lothal
an indus sites.
30.
The vedic deity indra was the god of rain and tunder.
31.
Atharva veda discuss the ideal of karma, jnana, upasana.
32.
The institution of varna appeared in the rigveda.
33.
The Aryans practice the craftsmanship
of balcksmithry, pottery, carpentry.
34.
The sama veda
rendered musically.
35.
The first discourse that the Buddha had
delivered at the deer park in sarnath called Dharmachakrapravartan.
36.
Kharavela ruler
patronage had been enjoyed by Jainism.
37.
The famous indo-greek king to embrace
Buddhism was menander.
38.
Kashyapa matanga
is the introduction of Buddhism into china traditionally attributed.
39.
Bimbisara the
ruler reign was a witness to both vardhaman mahavira and Buddha preaching their
respective doctrines.
40.
Vaishali was
mahavira born.
41.
The oldest jain scriptures are
regarded to be the twelve angas.
42.
Chandragupta maurya
had embraced Jainism.
43.
The original teachings of mahavira
are contained in the purvas.
44.
Harsha, kanishka, ashoka
enter the buddhist cold.
45.
In Sanskrit plays written during the
gupta period, women and sudras speak prakrit.
46.
According to tradition a mighty king
in India in the 4th century BC had been raised to power by a taxila Brahmin
named chanakya.
47.
Shankaracharya
established the four mathas or monastic seats in the four corners of India.
48.
The term used to denote a group of
families in the vedic society was jana.
49.
The svetambaras and digambaras refer
to two sects of Jainism.
50.
According to the mimansa school of
philosophy, Liberian is possible through karma.
51.
The great hindhu law giver was manu.
52.
During ashoka
regin did buddism become the state religion.
53.
4 buddhist councils held in
chronological order rajagriha, vaishali, pataliputra, Kashmir,
or jullandhar.
54.
The fourth Buddhist council had
compiled an encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy called mahavibhasha sutra.
55.
Buddhism was first propagated outside
India in Ceylon.
56.
The language adopted for preaching in
Mahayana Buddhism was Sanskrit.
57.
Asvaghosha converted
kanishka to bhuddhism.
58.
The Buddha said to have both been
born and shed his body on the vaishakha purnima day.
59.
The indus valley civilization was
discovered in the year 1921.
60.
During the gupta period the villages
affairs were managed by the village headman with the assistance of the vishyapati.
61.
An important part of the eastern
court during the gupta period was tamralipti.
62.
The sunga dynasty had made brahmanism the official religion of their kingdom.
63.
Most of the hindhu colonies in south
east asia had been found during the reign of the cholas.
64.
The saka era started from the year 78 AD.
65.
Samudragupta
ruler had led a campaign to the south, besies being an accomplished veena
player.
66.
Samudragupta has
been called the ‘nepolean of India’.
67.
Ashoka prime claim to greatness lay
in the promotion of people welfare by him.
68.
The achivements of samudragupta have
been chronicled in the Allahabad piller inscription.
69.
The sage agastya
considered to have aryanised southern India.
70.
The chola ruler rajendhra chola-1 had subdued the gangas and obtained
the title ‘gangai konda cholan’.
71.
The dynasty that excelled itself as a
navel power was that of the cholas.
72.
Rajindra chola- 1 had conquered
the northern part of srilanka and made it a province of his empire.
73.
The ancient, medical treatise,
charaka samhita is attributed to charaka, kanishaka
was a contemporary.
74.
The rashtrakutas are
credited with having bull built the famous ellora caves.
75.
The caves and rock cut temples at
ellora pertain to hinduism, Buddhism, jainism.
76.
The cult of Krishna is primarily exhibited
through the rajasthani school of art.
77.
Elephanta caves have
28 new caves been further discovered.
78.
The pallava kings were the makers of
the rock cut temples at mahabalipuram.
79.
The cresco paintings of Ajanta caves
illustrate the art of the guptas.
80.
Ashtadhyayi is
the oldest indian linguistic text.
81.
Taxila is
the oldest seat of learning.
82.
The shrimad bhagvata gita contains 18 chapters and 700 sanskrit slokas
or couplets.
83.
The Ramayana narrates events believed
to have taken place in the treta yug or age.
84.
Brahmagupta anticipated
newton by affirming that all things tended to gravitate top the earth.
85.
In ancient India nalanda university
represented a great center for the study of Mahayana Buddhism.
86.
Bana the
author of kadambari.
87.
Vyasa sage
or scholar had recast the original single veda into 4 distinct vedas.
88.
Alexander the
term ‘macedonia’s madamana’ refer.
89.
The bronze coins of nataraja or
dancing shiva during the chola period invariably deplicted the deity with 6 arms.
90.
The two colossal images of the Buddha
at bamiyan are an instance of the gupta art.
91.
Shiva ellora temples
was built by the rastrakutas.
92.
The earliest surviving extant, i.e.
still standing temples date from the gupta
period.
93.
Kadambari(banbhatta),
uttarramcharita(bhavabhuti), mudrarakshasa(vishakhadatta).
94.
An elaborate system of municipal
administration had been established by Chandragupta maurya.
95.
During the period of hiuen tsang visit
the Mathura city famous for production of cotton
cloth.
96.
Foreigners were absorbed in a large number
in the indian society during the period of mauryan.
97.
Malvikagnimitra(drama), surya siddhanta(astronomy),
mitakshara(law).
98.
The chief impact of vedic culture on
the indian history has been the consolidation of the
caste system.
99.
The original Buddhist religious texts had been
written in pali.
100.
The greatest Buddhist commentator of
the Buddhist canonical literature has been ashvaghosha.
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