Manu, Yajnavalkya , Narada and Brihaspati were?
Answer: A
They were law-givers of ancient India.
Manu, Yajnavalkya, Narada and Brihaspati give their names to the principal Dharmashastras, composed between about 200 BCE and 600 CE. The Yajnavalkya Smriti with Vijnaneshvara's Mitakshara commentary became the basis of Hindu law in most of India.
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The Red Fort was built by :
Answer: B
It was built by Shah Jahan.
The Lal Qila at Delhi was begun in 1638 and completed in 1648 as the palace-fort of his new capital Shahjahanabad, built in red sandstone by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. The prime minister addresses the nation from its ramparts each Independence Day.
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Who put an end to the system of Dual Government in Bengal ?
Answer: C
It was Warren Hastings.
He ended dual government in 1772 by taking the revenue administration directly into Company hands, moving the treasury from Murshidabad to Calcutta and halving the Nawab's allowance.
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What is meaning of Mati Jnana in Jainism ?
Answer: A
It is perception through the sense organs.
Mati jnana is the first of the five kinds of knowledge in Jainism - what is gained through the senses and the mind. Shruta is knowledge from scripture, avadhi is clairvoyance, manahparyaya telepathy and kevala omniscience.
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Which is the oldest text in the world ?
Answer: C
It is the Rigveda.
It is the oldest surviving text in any Indo-European language, composed between about 1500 and 1000 BCE and transmitted orally with great accuracy for centuries before being written down. UNESCO placed it on the Memory of the World register in 2007.
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The use of the Kharoshthi script in ancient India was the result of India's contact with
Answer: C
It was contact with Iran.
Kharoshthi derives from the Aramaic script used in the administration of the Achaemenid empire, which held Gandhara from the sixth century BCE. It is written right to left, unlike Brahmi, and was used in the north-west down to about the third century CE.
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The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the
Answer: D
It became common in the fourteenth century.
The charkha reached India from Iran in the Sultanate period and spread in the fourteenth century, multiplying the output of spun yarn several times over the hand spindle and underpinning the growth of the cotton textile trade.
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Which was the largest Indian site of Indus Civilization ?
Answer: D
It is Dholavira.
On Khadir island in the Rann of Kutch, Dholavira is the largest Indus site within India after Rakhigarhi, and the only one with a three-part division - citadel, middle town and lower town - along with elaborate reservoirs cut into rock.
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Ajatasatru was son of
Answer: A
He was the son of Bimbisara.
Ajatashatru imprisoned his father and took the throne about 492 BCE, then fought Kosala and Vaishali - the latter with the rathamusala and the mahashilakantaka, the earliest siege engines named in Indian sources.
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Which was capital of Harshavardhana ?
Answer: D
It was Kannauj.
Harshavardhana began at Thanesar in 606 and moved his capital to Kannauj after uniting the two kingdoms, making it the chief city of north India for the next two centuries. Hiuen Tsang describes his court and the assembly held there.
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