RISE OF MAGADHA AND ALEXANDER'S INVASION

Question 1

LIST OF SIXTEENTH MAHAJANAPADAS IS MENTIONED IN WHICH BUDDHIST LITERATURE?

Answer 1

ANGUTTARA NIKAYA (SUTTA PITAKA).

Question 2

OUT OF THE 16 MAHAJANAPADAS, IN MID 6th CENTURY BC ONLY FOUR SURVIVED. WHAT WERE THOSE?

Answer 2

1. VATSA
2. AVANTI
3. KOSALA
4. MAGADHA.

Question 3

ARRANGE SAISUNAGA, NANADA AND HARYANKA DYNASTIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER?

Answer 3

HARYANKA-> SAISUNAGA-> NANDAS
1. HARYANKA
- BIMBISARA
- AJATASATTU
2. SAISUNAGA
- KAKAVARMAN OR KALASOKA
3. NANDAS
- MAHAPADMA NANDA.

Question 4

SECOND BUDDHIST COUNCIL WAS HELD DURING THE REIGN OF?

Answer 4

KAKAVARMAN OR KALASOKA (SAISUNAGA DYNASTY).

Question 5

THE ENORMOUS WEALTH OF THE NANDAS IS ALSO REFERRED TO IN TAMIL SANGAM WORK _______ BY THE POET _______.

Answer 5

AHANANURU BY POET MAMULANAR.

Question 6

BATTLE OF HYDASPES?
WHEN, BETWEEN WHOM AND RESULT?

Answer 6

THE BATTLE OF THE HYDASPES ALSO KNOWN AS BATTLE OF JHELUM, OR FIRST BATTLE OF JHELUM, WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND PORUS IN MAY OF 326 BC.
ALEXANDER DEFEATED PORUS AND TREATED HIM GENEROUSLY AND REINSTATED HIM ON HIS THRONE.

Question 7

BATTLE OF HYDASPES WAS FOUGHT ON THE PLAINS OF_______.

Answer 7

KARRI.

Question 8

WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS INDIAN MACHIAVELLI?

Answer 8

KAUTILYA (CHANAKYA OR VISHNUGUPTA).

Question 9

THREE PARTS OF ARTHASHASTRA DEALS WITH?

Answer 9

1. FIRST- DEALS WITH THE KING AND HIS COUNCIL AND THE DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT.
2. SECOND- CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW.
3. THIRD- DIPLOMACY AND WAR.

Question 10

MUDRARAKSHASA IS WRITTEN BY?

Answer 10

VISAKADATTA.
IT IS A DRAMA IN SANSKRIT WRITTEN DURING THE GUPTA PERIOD.
IT DESCRIBES HOW CHANDRAGUPTA WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF KAUTILYA OVERTHREW THE NANDAS.

Question 11

INDICA IS WRITTEN BY?

Answer 11

MEGASTHENES.

Question 12

DETAILS PROVIDED BY THE 13th ROCK EDICT AND 7th PILLAR EDICT?

Answer 12

13th ROCK EDICT- GIVES DETAILS ABOUT HIS WAR WITH KALINGAS.
7th PILLAR EDICT- GIVES SUMMARY OF HIS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE DHAMMA.

Question 13

WHICH KING WAS CALLED THE AMITRAGATHA BY GREEKS?

Answer 13

BINDUSARA.
AMITRAGATHA MEANS SLAYER OF ENEMIES.

Question 14

ASHOKA EMBRACED BUDDHISM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WHICH BUDDHIST MONK?

Answer 14

UPAGUPTA.

Question 15

ASHOKA SENT A MISSION TO SRI LANKA UNDER HIS SON______ AND DAUGHTER_______ WHO PLANTED THERE THE BRANCH OF THE ORIGINAL BODHI TREE.

Answer 15

MAHENDRA AND DAUGHTER SANGAMITRA.

Question 16

1. AFTER ASHOKA DEATH MAURYAN EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS- WESTERN AND EASTERN.
2. WESTERN PART RULED BY KUNALA, SON OF ASHOKA AND EASTERN PART BY DASARATHA, ONE OF THE GRANDSONS OF ASHOKA.
3. DUE TO BACTRIAN INVASIONS EASTERN PART OF THE EMPIRE COLLAPSED.
   TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 16

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE, WESTERN PART COLLAPSED, EASTERN PART WAS INTACT UNDER SAMPRATI SUCCESSOR OF DASARATHA.

Question 17

LAST MAURYAN KING WAS______ , WHO WAS ASSASSINATED BY_______.

Answer 17

BRIHATRATHA, ASSASSINATED BY PUSHYAMITRA SUNGA.

Question 18

GOVERNMENT IN MAURYAN EMPIRE
1. SYSTEMS LIKE REPUBLICS AND OLIGARCHIES THAT WERE PREVALENT IN THE PRE MAURYAN INDIA HAD COLLAPSED.
2. A COUNCIL OF MINISTERS CALLED MANTRIPARISHAD ASSISTED THE KING IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.
3. KAUTILYA SUPPORTED FOR THE MONARCHIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
4. KAUTILYA STOOD FOR ROYAL ABSOLUTISM.

Answer 18

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE, ALTHOUGH KAUTILYA SUPPORTED THE MONARCHIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT, HE DID NOT STAND FOR ROYAL ABSOLUTISM.

Question 19

WHO WERE AMATYAS IN MAURYAN EMPIRE?

Answer 19

CIVIL SERVANTS.

Question 20

WHO WAS SAMHARTA IN MAURYAN EMPIRE?

Answer 20

THE CHIEF OF THE REVENUE DEPARTMENT, WAS IN CHARGE OF ALL REVENUES OF THE EMPIRE.

Question 21

MAURYAN JUDICIAL AND POLICE DEPARTMENT
1. THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT AT THE CAPITAL WAS CALLED DHARMATHIKARIN.
2. TORTURE WAS APPLIED TO EXTRACT TRUTH.
3. BOTH KAUTILYA AND ASHOKAN EDICTS MENTION ABOUT JAIL AND JAIL OFFICIALS.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 21

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE