The twenty-third Jaina teacher, Parsva, the immediate predecessor of Mahavira enjoined on his disciples four great vows. To these Mahavira addes which of the followings as the fifth vow?
Answer: C
He added brahmacharya.
Parsva's four vows were non-injury, truth, non-stealing and non-possession. Mahavira added continence as the fifth, making the panchamahavrata that the Jaina ascetic takes.
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When was Mahavira born ?
Answer: B
He was born in 540 BCE.
Mahavira was born at Kundagrama near Vaishali to Siddhartha and Trishala of the Jnatrika clan, renounced the world at thirty, gained kevala after twelve years, and died at Pavapuri in 468 BCE.
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Chandragupta dethroned the last Nanda ruler, His name was ?
Answer: A
It was Dhana Nanda.
The last of the Nandas was hated for his exactions and, in the Greek accounts, was the king whose army on the Ganga deterred Alexander's men from advancing. Chandragupta, with Chanakya, overthrew him about 322 BCE.
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To conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab, Mahmud of Ghazni defeated ?
Answer: D
He defeated the Hindushahis.
Mahmud broke Jayapala at Peshawar in 1001 and Anandapala in 1008, ending Hindushahi rule in the Kabul valley and Punjab and opening the way to his later raids on the plains.
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Samudragupta's reign was
Answer: A
It was 335 to 380 CE.
Samudragupta's campaigns are recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription of Harisena: nine kings of the north uprooted, twelve of the south defeated and restored as tributaries. He performed the ashvamedha and issued a coin showing himself playing the veena.
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Who built the Ibadatkhana at Fatehpur Sikri ?
Answer: B
It was Akbar.
He built the Ibadat Khana, the house of worship, at Fatehpur Sikri in 1575, first for debate among Muslim divines and from 1578 open to Hindus, Jains, Parsis, Jews and the Jesuits. The discussions there led on to the Mahzar and the Din-i-Ilahi.
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Who was Channa ?
Answer: B
He was the Buddha's charioteer.
Channa drove Siddhartha out of Kapilavastu on the night of the renunciation, and took back his ornaments and the horse Kanthaka. He later became a monk, and the Vinaya records the brahmadanda imposed on him for his arrogance.
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To which king does the Lion Capital at Sarnath belong?
Answer: C
It belongs to Ashoka.
The capital crowned his pillar at Sarnath, where the Buddha preached his first sermon. Adopted as the state emblem in 1950, it shows three of its four lions above a frieze with the Dharmachakra and the bull, horse, elephant and lion.
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First battle of Panipat was fought between ?
Answer: A
Between Babur and Ibrahim Lodi.
Babur won at Panipat on 21 April 1526 with about 12,000 men against Ibrahim's far larger force, using the tulughma flanking manoeuvre and field guns chained behind carts. Ibrahim was killed, and the Mughal empire founded.
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Government of India Act passed in ?
Answer: B
It was passed in 1935.
The Government of India Act 1935 provided for provincial autonomy, an all-India federation that never came into being, and a federal court. Much of it was carried into the Constitution of India.
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