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Practice Palas, Pratiharas, Rashtrakutas and Cholas – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 1

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  1. Question 1

    In the seventh century, what were the big landlords and warrior chiefs whom kings treated as their subordinates called?

  2. Question 2

    Before becoming independent, the Rashtrakutas of the Deccan were subordinate to which dynasty?

  3. Question 3

    What is the literal meaning of 'hiranya-garbha', the ritual performed by Dantidurga?

  4. Question 4

    Harichandra, a Gurjara-Pratihara from a Brahmana family, established a kingdom in which region?

  5. Question 5

    What does the royal title 'tribhuvana-chakravartin' mean?

  6. Question 6

    The Sanskrit prashasti of the Pratihara king Nagabhata was found at which place?

  7. Question 7

    Land grants made by kings to Brahmanas were usually recorded on what?

  8. Question 8

    Kalhana's Rajatarangini is a long Sanskrit poem about the kings of which region?

  9. Question 9

    From which chiefly family did Vijayalaya capture the Kaveri delta in the mid-ninth century?

  10. Question 10

    In which year did Rajaraja I become the Chola king?

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