Answer: Option A. -> Garuda
Answer: (a)

Answer: Option A. -> King Balaputradeva of Sumatra
Answer: (a)

Answer: Option A. -> 2 1 4 3
Answer: (a)
The correct match list is:
(Dynasty)
(Capital)
Chalukya of Gujarat
Anhilvad
Kalachuris of Chedi
Tripuri
Parmaras of Malwa
Dhara
Chahmans of Sakambhari
Ajmer

Answer: Option D. -> Rudradev
Answer: (d)
Rudradev suffered defeat at the hands of Samudragupta. After the death of Hameer Dev, Rudra Dev became the king. He was a brave person.
He established peace in his state. He was married to the daughter of a neighbouring state and got that state in dowry. He declared Rudri as his capital of the state.
He got the temple of Lord Shiva constructed on the bank of Mahanadi. This temple is famous by the name of Rudreshwar.

Answer: Option C. -> Karle
Answer: (c)
A Chaitya Hall at Karle was built largely by the donation of the Yavanas. The Chaitya at Karle is, by far, the largest of the cave temples.
It is situated at Karle in Pune district of Maharashtra. It is said to have been sculptured between 100–125 AD. It is cut off of solid rock to a depth of about 124 feet.
It is 40 metres long, 15 metres high and 15 metres broad. Inside, there are 37 octagonal pillars of remarkable beauty.

Answer: Option A. -> Banabhatta
Answer: (a)
Harshacharita was written by Banabhatta. Banabhatta was born around the 7th century in a village in India. He was born in Pritikuta village, which was situated on the banks of Hiranyavahu.
This village used to exist in the district, which is now called, Chhapra. He was born to Chitrabhanu and Rajadevi and he was a family of Vatsyayana Gotra.
Born in a Brahman family, he was a poor but a clever child. Even during his childhood, he showed signs of great potential and finished his education with much dedication and hard work.

Answer: Option C. -> Chandragupta II
Answer: (c)
Chandragupta II gave his daughter Prabhavati in marriage to the Vakataka prince Rudrasena II. The political importance of this marriage lies in the fact that the Vakatakas occupied a geographically strategic position in the Deccan.
This alliance served a useful purpose when Chandragupta-II undertook his campaign in western India against the Sakas.

Answer: Option B. -> Abhigyanashakuntalam
Answer: (b)
Abhigyanashakuntalam contains the description of the king Dushyant of Hastinapur. Abhigynanasakuntalam is a beautiful tale of love and romance, the name literally meaning ‘Of Sakuntala who is recognized by a token’.
Written by one of the greatest poets of India, Sakuntalam is synonymous with its author, Kalidasa. Abhigynanasakuntalam is the first Indian play ever to be translated into western languages. It is for the very first time translated in the English language by Sir William Jones in the year 1789.
Later to this, there were at least 46 translations of this play by Kalidasa in 12 different European languages.

Answer: Option A. -> Vatsyayan
Answer: (a)
Vatsyayan was the author of Kamasutra. Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into seven parts.
Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. Keay says that the Kamasutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.

Answer: Option B. -> Jayasimha Siddharaja
Answer: (b)
Jayasimha Siddharaja had granted one lakh balotras from his own treasury for the restoration of a mosque of Khambhat.
Jayasimha Siddharaja was the greatest Chalukya king who, in commemoration of his victory against the Paramaras, adopted the title of Avantinatha.
During the reign of Bhima II (1178- 1241), Muhammad Ghori made an unsuccessful attempt to subjugate Gujarat in 1178 AD.