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Answer: Option C. -> Five Provinces
Answer: (c)
Answer: (c)
Question 552. Consider the following statements regarding the description of Megasthenese.
- Megasthenese describes the seven castes in India
- Megasthenese describes salavary system is not found in India
- There is no femine in India
- Writing skill was not developed in India. Which of the above statements are correct?
Answer: Option C. -> 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (c)
Answer: (c)
Answer: Option A. -> Rudradaman
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
Answer: Option B. -> Chunar near Mirzapur
Answer: (b)
Answer: (b)
Answer: Option A. -> Pataliputra
Answer: (a) According to the Theravada commentaries and chronicles, the Third Buddhist Council was convened by the Mauryan king Ashoka at Pataliputra, under the leadership of the monk Moggaliputta Tissa.
Answer: (a) According to the Theravada commentaries and chronicles, the Third Buddhist Council was convened by the Mauryan king Ashoka at Pataliputra, under the leadership of the monk Moggaliputta Tissa.
Answer: Option A. -> Chanakya
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
Answer: Option B. -> Saka
Answer: (b)
Answer: (b)
Question 558. Which edict of Ashoka contains the famous pronouncement: “at all times, whether I am eating, or I am in the women’s apartments, or in my inner apartments, or at the cattleshed, or in my carriage, or in my gardens —wherever I may be—my mahamatta should keep me in touch with public business”?
Answer: Option C. -> Rock Edict VI
Answer: (c)
Answer: (c)
Answer: Option A. -> Rock Edict V
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
Question 560. Which of the following are the salient features of Gandhara art?
Select the answer from the codes given below:
- Moulding the human body in a realistic manner with minute attention to physical features like muscles, moustache and curly hair.
- Thick drapery with large and bold fold lines.
- Rich carving, elaborate ornamentation and symbolic expressions.
- The main theme was the new form of Buddhism - Mahayanism - and the evolution of an image of Buddha.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
Answer: Option D. -> 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (d)
The home of the Gandhara school of art is the territory in and around Peshawar in northwestern India. The best of the Gandhara sculpture was produced during the first and second centuries A.D.
It originated during the reign of Indo-Greek rulers but the real patrons of this school of art were the Sakas and the Kushanas, particularly Kanishka. Gandhara art was a blend of Indian and Graeco-Roman elements. Specimens of Gandhara sculpture have been found in Taxila, Peshawar and in several places of northwest India.
The Gandhara School made sculptures of the Buddha in various sizes, shapes and postures. The reliefs depict Buddha’s birth, his renunciation and his preaching.
Answer: (d)
The home of the Gandhara school of art is the territory in and around Peshawar in northwestern India. The best of the Gandhara sculpture was produced during the first and second centuries A.D.
It originated during the reign of Indo-Greek rulers but the real patrons of this school of art were the Sakas and the Kushanas, particularly Kanishka. Gandhara art was a blend of Indian and Graeco-Roman elements. Specimens of Gandhara sculpture have been found in Taxila, Peshawar and in several places of northwest India.
The Gandhara School made sculptures of the Buddha in various sizes, shapes and postures. The reliefs depict Buddha’s birth, his renunciation and his preaching.
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