INDIAN HISTORY || ANCIENT INDIA || PART 5OF5 ||
1. The Buddha has been eulogized as an ocean of
wisdom and compassion in amarakosa.
2.
St. Thomas
refered to as the ‘sadhu from the west’.
3.
Gupta period
is refered to as the period of hindu revival or renaissance.
4.
BG Tilak
popularized the theory of the arctic region as the original home of the Aryans.
5.
Atharva veda
saying ‘war begins in the minds of men…….’.
6.
Gangas, sindu,
saraswati frequent mention in rig vedic hymns.
7.
The philosophical essence, “the world
is but god manifest and god is my own soul” may be traced to the upanishadas
8.
The most commonly used coin during
the mauryan period was karashopana.
9.
The arab conquest of sind in 712 AD
had taken place under the leadership of mohammad-bin-qasim.
10.
The reverential title of”the
liberator” had been earned by ashoka.
11.
Brihal samhita
is encyclopaedic in nature.
12.
Megasthanes
was the greek ambassador in the court of Chandragupta maurya.
13.
Saka age(78
AD), gupta age(320 AD), kali era(3102 BC).
14.
The ritualistic precepts pertaining
to the hymns of the vedas are known as brahmanas.
15.
The script of the indus valley
civilization was Dravidian.
16.
The god marut,
agni, indra gained ground in the rig vedic period.
17.
The digambaras and shvetambaras
differ primerly with regard to their dress.
18.
Ashoka express his faith in the
Buddhist creed in the bhabru edict.
19.
Horse
is commen for both harappan civilization and rig vedic society.
20.
The largest urban center in ancient
India had been kannauj.
21.
Ashoka conquest of kalinga has
described in the minor rock edict numberd xiii.
22.
The new element of gopuram had been
encouraged in temples of southern India by the pandyas.
23.
The temples known as the 7 pagodas
had been built by the pallavas.
24.
A dominant majority of the images at
Ajanta are the Buddha.
25.
The modi script had been employed in
the documents of the marathas.
26.
Kharoshti script
were the ashoken inscription were written in north west frontier province.
27.
The lowest unit of chola administration was the kurram.
28.
Madurai had been the capital of the pandyas.
29.
Tamralipti ports
handled the north indian trade during the gupta period.
30.
vasumitra
presided over the Buddhist council heild during the reign of kanishka at Kashmir.
31.
Dhyana is the name of the preaching mudra of gesture,
in which the Buddha is depicted delivering his first sermon, in the gandhara
sculptures.
32.
Sakala
was the original name of euthydemia.
33.
Menander coins was
the wheel round.
34.
Gondophemes
the visit of saint Thomas take place.
35.
Khotan, yarkand, kashgar conqured
by kanishka from china.
36.
The harappan town considered to be a
town of the artists and craftman was chanhudaro.
37.
In the rig veda the term dasas and
dasyus refers to non Aryans.
38.
Two most important acts and rituals
associated with the vadic marriage system was pani-grahana,
sapta-padi.
39.
Carpenter
the most impotent craftsman in the vedic period.
40.
The ramous vedic river saraswati had long ago become extinct and now
supported to the flowing underground in rajisthan.
41.
The word jina from conqueor (of senses) which the Jainism has organized.
42.
India had a brisk foreign trade with
the roman world during the period sangam.
43.
The Sanskrit drama which triumph over
the nanda is mudrarakshasa.
44.
The rulers of a dynasty of the deccan
who were supposed to be brahminas and staunch supporters of Brahmanism were satavahanas.
45.
The successors of the satavahanas in
the deccan were the vakatakas.
46.
The paintings in the Ajanta caves
shows an indian king recing receing an embassy from the king or Persia. The
king receiving the embassy has been identify with dhruva
iv
47.
The last nanda ruler of Magadha dhananada was overthrown by Chandragupta maurya with
the help of chanakya.
48.
The pallava king mahendravarman-1 adopted the epithet of vichitrachitta
of curious minded.
49.
River Chenab was known is ancient
times as asikru.
50.
According to ancient indian legendary
sources, surabhi was an treasure in the form of a cow
chumed from the cosmic ocean.
51.
Mahabharata was also known as rajatarangini.
52.
Kalasoka
among organized the second Buddhist assembly.
53.
‘Abhijnanasakuntalam’ has been
reckoned as a masterpiece of Kalidasa.
54.
The worship of idols started in India
in the gupta period.
55.
Among Brihat
Samhita 4 works in encyclopaedic in nature.
56.
Raghuvamsa, sakun utiam,,
kumarasambhavam work of Kalidasa.
57.
Kailasa temple ellora caves
of the largest monolithic structures.
58.
The term “tirthankaras” is associated with Jainism.
59.
Merchants
possibly ruled the indus people.
60.
Tin, lead, copper
known to the indus valley civilization .
61.
A ‘sabha’ in the vedic period was national assembly of all citizens of the state.
62.
The last in the succession of jaina
tirthankaras was mahavira.
63.
The indus valley civilization type
was found in sumer, Egypt, china.
64.
In Jainism, ‘perfect knowledge’ is
refered to as kaivalya.
65.
The Buddhist sect Mahayana formally
came into existence during the reign of kanishka.
66.
Aryabhatta and varahamihira lived
during the gupta period.
67.
Earlier mathematician had taught that
x/0 =infinity is Bhaskara.
68.
Susruta known
for his work on medicine during gupta period.
69.
Kapilavasthu is associated with lord Buddha.
70.
The official language of marina court was Magadhi.
71.
Vaman
avatar of vishnu tricked mahabali and
claimed earth and heaven from him.
72.
Banabhatta, a great scholar lived
during the reign of harsha.
73.
Varahamihira
of the indian astronomer of 6th century (he know 5 astronomical
systems).
74.
Sama Veda
deal with music.
75.
After the decline of the chalukya
kingdom of kalyani at the close of the 12th and of the chola king
Dom at the beginning of the 13th century are yadavas of devagiri and kakatiyas of Warangal and hoyasalas of dwarsamudra
and panyas of Madurai.
76.
A contemporary rival dynasty of the Cholas in
south India was chalukyas of kalyani.
77.
The master piece of chola sculpture
is the famous nataraja or the dancing Shiva image at Chidambaram.
78.
The chief feature of the chola
architecture was massive vimanas or towers.
79.
The chola king rajendra-1
after successfully raiding Bengal took the title of gagaikonda and also founded
a new capital (gangaikonda cholapuram).
80.
Rajendra-1
of the Cholas rulers in the history of India under taken navel expeditions and
successfully invaded laccadives, Maldives, srilanka and Sumatra.
81.
The
pallava king responsible for carving the rathas of mahabalipuram was narasimhavarman.
82.
The foundation of the Dravidian style of
architecture in south India was laid by pallavas.
83.
The capital of the pallavas was kanchi or conjeevaram.
84.
Most of the rock cut caves, chaityas,
monasteries, temples, etc.. at Ajanta and ellora were built during the period
of chalukyas of badami and rastrakutas of manyakheda.
85.
Of the 4 main chalukya dynasties of
early medival india pulikesin ii, badami or vatapi
defeated harsha, belonged to chalukya dynasty.
86.
Indias earliest contact with islam
was established through arab merchants of Malabar
coast.
87.
The single most important factor
responsible for the transformation of ancient Indian society into medival
society was the practice of land grants.
88.
Kalhanas rajatarangini is awork on
the history of Kashmir.
89.
The temples of khajuraho built by
chandela kings in the 11th century are shaiva
and jain temples.
90.
Khajuraho, mahoba (or
mahotsvanagar) and kalanjar
associated with the chandelas.
91.
The chahamana (or chauhan) king ajayaraj founded the city of Ajmer and made it his
capital.
92.
The ninth incarnation (avtar) of
Vishnu was Buddha.
93.
Ayurveda has its origin of atharva veda.
94.
Bharavi wrote
kiratarjuniyam.
95.
The author of sivaje-chinthamani
considered to be a tamil epic was a jaina.
96.
Kiratarjuniyam wrote bharavi.
97.
Krishnadeva roya author of amuktamalyada.
98.
Gopal of pala dynasty was
the founder kings of a ruling dynasty of north India elected by the people.
99. Two great Buddhist universities of nalanda and
vikramshila were patronized by the palas.
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