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Question 91. The earliest inscription on stone was in which language?
  1.    Sanskrit
  2.    Brahmi
  3.    Pali
  4.    Prakrit
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Prakrit
Answer: (d)
Question 92. Who of the following was a contemporary of Alexander, the Great?
  1.    Bimbisara
  2.    Pushyamitra Sunga
  3.    Chandragupta Maurya
  4.    Ashoka
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Chandragupta Maurya
Answer: (c)Chandra Gupta Maurya was the founder of Maurya dynasty. Megosthenes, the Greek ambaseddor lived in her court.
Question 93. Earliest specimen of ‘Kavya’ style is found in the inscription of
  1.    Ashoka
  2.    None of the above
  3.    Rudradaman of Kathiawar
  4.    Rajendra I
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Rudradaman of Kathiawar
Answer: (c)
Question 94. Which dynasty was most powerful after Maurya in Southern India?
  1.    Pallava
  2.    Chalukya
  3.    Satvahana
  4.    Chola
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Satvahana
Answer: (c)
Question 95. The Mauryan king who issued the Nagarjuni Hill Cave Inscriptions and assumed the royal title of Devanampriya was:
  1.    Ashoka
  2.    Brihadratha
  3.    Dasharatha
  4.    Bindusara
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Ashoka
Answer: (a)
Question 96. Which of the following was not one of the checks on the powers of the Mauryan kings?
  1.    Customs of the land
  2.    Mantri-parishad
  3.    Guilds
  4.    Brahmins
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Brahmins
Answer: (d)
Question 97. Arrange the following dynasties in chronological order in terms of their arrival in India
  1. Sakas
  2. Indo-Greeks
  3. Parthians
  4. Kushanas
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :
  1.    1, 2, 3 and 4
  2.    2, 3, 1 and 4
  3.    1, 3, 4 and 2
  4.    2, 1, 3 and 4
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 2, 1, 3 and 4
Answer: (d)
Question 98. Who among the following kings was a contemporary of both Mahavira and Buddha ?
  1.    Ajatshatru
  2.    Ashoka
  3.    Nandivardhana
  4.    Bimbisara
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Bimbisara
Answer: (d)
Question 99. Ashokan inscriptions were first deciphered by
  1.    George Buhler
  2.    Ahmad Hasan Dani
  3.    James Prinsep
  4.    Vincent Smith
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> James Prinsep
Answer: (c)
Question 100. The lowest order in the social scale of Mauryan society was not a slave but the outcaste. Which of the following statements about the outcastes is not correct?
  1.    Their caste names referred directly to their profession or work
  2.    They were not allowed to perform any rituals
  3.    They accepted the position of social ostracism
  4.    They lived together with their families outside the towns
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> They were not allowed to perform any rituals
Answer: (b)

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