Which among the following ancient authors has complained of the drain of gold to India (due to trade hegemony of ancient India)?
Answer: D
It was Pliny.
Pliny the Elder complained in his Natural History that India, China and Arabia drained the empire of a hundred million sesterces a year, and called India the sink of the world's gold. Roman coin hoards found across south India bear him out.
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For which of the following the term Sandalwood is used?
Answer: A
It refers to Kannada cinema.
The name comes from the sandalwood of Karnataka, and follows the pattern of Bollywood and Tollywood. The industry is based at Bengaluru and was once centred on Gandhinagar.
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”Donyi Polo” is a religion / tradition followed by some tribals of which among the following states?
Answer: B
It is followed in Arunachal Pradesh.
Donyi-Polo means sun and moon, worshipped as the supreme principle by the Tani tribes - Nyishi, Adi, Apatani and others. It was formalised as a religion in the twentieth century in response to conversion.
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In the Rigvedic Dasrajan Yudha (Battle of Ten Kings) the Bharatas emerged winner at the bank of __?
Answer: D
It was on the Parushni, the modern Ravi.
The battle of ten kings is described in the seventh mandala of the Rigveda: Sudas of the Bharatas defeated a confederacy of ten tribes, whose forces were destroyed when the river's embankments were broken.
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Elephanta Caves are predominantly attributed to which Hindu God?
Answer: A
They are dedicated to Shiva.
The rock-cut caves on Gharapuri island near Mumbai, of the fifth to eighth centuries, centre on the colossal Trimurti - the three-headed bust of Shiva - along with Ardhanarishvara and the marriage of Shiva and Parvati.
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The Varkari sect in Maharashtra was founded by __?
Answer: D
It was Dnyaneshwar.
His Dnyaneshwari, a Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written in the thirteenth century when he was about sixteen, founded the Varkari tradition. Namdev, Eknath and Tukaram followed in the same line.
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Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist temples, commonly called Peace Pagodas or Shanti Stupas, were established by whom?
Answer: A
They were established by Nichidatsu Fujii, called Fuji Guru.
The Japanese monk founded the Nipponzan Myohoji order and, after meeting Gandhi in 1931, began building peace pagodas around the world after the bombing of Hiroshima. There are several in India, including at Rajgir, Wardha and Delhi.
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The temple city of Osian, near Jodhpur was built by _______?
Answer: A
It was built by the Pratiharas.
Osian, about 65 km from Jodhpur, holds a group of Hindu and Jain temples of the eighth to eleventh centuries built under Gurjara-Pratihara rule, and is among the earliest surviving temple complexes in western India.
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Which among the following is the correct description of Nagara , Dravida and Vesara?
Answer: C
They are the three main styles of Indian temple architecture.
Nagara is the northern style with a curvilinear shikhara; Dravida the southern, with a stepped pyramidal vimana and gopurams; Vesara the hybrid of the Deccan, developed by the Chalukyas and Hoysalas.
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Famous sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya settled in Delhi during the times of __:
Answer: A
He settled there under Ghiyasuddin Balban.
Nizamuddin Auliya lived from about 1238 to 1325 - the age of the Delhi Sultanate, not the Mughals. He came to Delhi as a young man in Balban's reign, and by his death had seen seven sultans come and go, refusing to attend the court of any of them.
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