Answer: Option C. -> Gupta
Answer: (c)
Gupta period marks the beginning of the Indian temple architecture. The Gupta temple was a “shikara” type of temple, built in a straight-edged pyramid shape, but this cannot be fully established by existing evidence.
However, the supporting features of copings and amalakas (a bulbous stone finial), support the theory that a shikara existed as part of the main shrine.

Answer: Option C. -> 4 1 2 3
Answer: (c)
 

Answer: Option D. -> Gahadavalas
Answer: (d)
Gahadavalas levied Turushka-danda. Gahadavala dynasty rule of the district is proved by the discovery at Kudarkot of a copper plate grant dated in the reign of Chandradeva.
Chandradeva founded the Gahadavala dynasty at Kanyakubja after defeating a chief named Gopala of Tuar clan.
His jurisdiction extended over nearly all of what is modern Uttar Pradesh including this district.

Answer: Option B. -> Jayasimha
Answer: (b)
Jayasimha is the last king described in the Rajatarangini of Kalhana. From this, comes Stein’s deduction that Kalhana was not a part of the circle surrounding Jayasimha, the ruling monarch at the time when he was writing the Rajatarangini. Kalhana was born to a Kashmiri minister, Canpaka, who probably served king Harsa of the Lohara dynasty.
It is possible that his birthplace was Parihasapura and his birth would have been very early in the 12th century.

Answer: Option A. -> Bakhtiyar Khilji
Answer: (a)

Answer: Option B. -> Acquisition of Wealth
Answer: (b)
Acquisition of wealth was the main objective of Sultan Mahmud’s Indian conquests. In 1001, Mahmud of Ghazni had first invaded India. Mahmud defeated, captured and later released Shahi ruler Jaya Pala who had moved his capital to Peshawar.
Jaya Pala killed himself and was succeeded by his son Ananda Pala. In 1005, Mahmud of Ghazni invaded Bhatia (probably Bhera) and in 1006 he invaded Multan at which time Ananda Pala’s army attacked him.

Answer: Option B. -> Bramhagupta
Answer: (b) Ujjain is a birth place of Brahmagupta. By the 6th century BC, Avanti with its capital at Ujjaini, is mentioned in Buddhist literature as one of the four great powers along with Vatsa, Kosala and Magadha. Ujjain lay on the main trade route between North India and Deccan going from Mathura via Ujjain to Mahismati (Maheshwar) on the Narmada, and on to Paithan on the Godavari, western Asia and the West.

Answer: Option C. -> Kumaragupta I
Answer: (c) Nalanda University was founded by Kumaragupta I during the Gupta period. Most of the information that is available about Nalanda University during the 6th and 7th centuries A.D. is due to the accounts left by the Chinese pilgrims, Hiuen-Tsang who lived here for three years in the first half of the 7th century and I-Tsing who stayed here for ten years towards the later part of the same century. From Chinese accounts, it is evident that about one thousand and five hundred teachers and ten thousand monk students lived in Nalanda. However, at the time of I-Tsing, the numerical strength of students studying at the University was about three thousand. Nalanda attracted students from places as distant as China and South-east Asia.

Answer: Option B. -> Pallava kings
Answer: (b) The Rock-cut temples of Mahabalipuram were built under the patronage of the Pallava kings. Mahabalipuram lies on the Coromandel coast which faces the Bay of Bengal. This is an elegant place to watch which was a well-established sea port during the 7th and 10th centuries of the Pallava dynasty. This was the second capital of the Pallavas who ruled Kanchipuram.

Answer: Option C. -> sapphire
Answer: (c)