Practice Gupta Empire – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 3

Consider the following statements about Samudragupta's policies towards different rulers, as described by Harishena:

1. In Aryavarta, nine rulers were uprooted and their kingdoms were made part of the Gupta empire.

2. In Dakshinapatha, twelve rulers were defeated and their kingdoms were annexed to the Gupta empire.

3. Neighbouring states such as Assam, coastal Bengal and Nepal brought tribute and attended his court.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I (Gupta-period post) with List-II (role):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Arrange the following events of Gupta history in chronological order:

1. Overcoming of the last of the Shakas in western India

2. Defeat of the Huns, recorded in the Bhitari inscription

3. Marriage of a Gupta ruler with the Lichchhavi princess Kumaradevi

4. Composition of the prashasti by Harishena on the Allahabad pillar

Select the correct chronological order.

Consider the following statements about officials in the Gupta period:

1. The title maha-danda-nayaka meant the minister of war and peace.

2. Harishena was a maha-danda-nayaka like his father, showing that some posts had become hereditary.

3. The title kumar-amatya meant the chief judicial officer.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I (place) with List-II (Gupta-period monument or art):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about literature of the Gupta period:

1. In Kalidasa's plays, the king and brahmins speak Sanskrit, while women and others speak Prakrit.

2. The Puranas were written in simple Sanskrit verse so that everyone, including women and shudras, could hear them.

3. The stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana were first composed about 1500 years ago.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the later Gupta rulers and the decline of the empire:

1. The Junagadh inscription records that the Sudarshana lake dam was rebuilt in the reign of Skandagupta.

2. The Hun ruler Mihirakula was the father of Toramana.

3. Kumaragupta I, titled Mahendraditya, greatly expanded the empire through major wars.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the early Gupta rulers:

1. Srigupta and Ghatotkacha were the first Gupta rulers to take the title maharajadhiraja.

2. Chandragupta I married Kumaradevi, who belonged to the Lichchhavi family.

3. The Gupta era is taken to begin in the time of Chandragupta I, around 320 CE.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about prashastis:

1. The Prayag Prashasti is a Sanskrit kavya composed by Harishena in praise of Samudragupta.

2. The Prayag Prashasti is inscribed on a pillar that also carries the edicts of Ashoka.

3. Ravikirti composed a prashasti of Harsha.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about science in the Gupta period:

1. Aryabhata gave a scientific explanation of eclipses and a method to find the circumference of a circle.

2. The Aryabhatiyam was written in Prakrit.

3. The counting system with a special symbol for zero was adopted by the Arabs and later spread to Europe.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?