Post : Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Examination : Civil Services Preliminary
Programme : Ancient Indian History
Contact Address : UPSC, Man Singh Road Area New Delhi, Delhi - 110-069
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Topics Covered: Administrative System, Economic Condition, Society, Marriage Practices, Education, Indian Religions, Moderate Saiva Sects, Extreme Saiva Sects, Saivism in South India, Language and Literature, Secular, Tamil Literature, Foreign Accounts, Art and Architecture, Stupas, Chaityas, Vihara Construction, Bahmanical and Jaina Caves, Sculptures, Paintings, Science and Technology, Astronomy, Medicine, Metallurgy.
✓ The provinces in turn were subdivided into divisions. This division was called
(a) Vishaya
(b) Bhoga
(c) Kottam(in South)
(d) All of the above
✓ The other units of administration were the districts called
(a) Adhistana
(b) Pattana
(c) Nadu
(d) All of the above
✓ Two new classes of officers were introduced by the Guptas. These were
(a) Ayuktas and Yuktas
(b) Yuktas and Sarthavaha
(c) Sandhivigrahika and Kumaramatyas
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following texts was the major work in the older tradition of Prakrit?
(a) Vakapati’s Gaudavaho
(b) Shameshwar’s Rashamala
(c) Magha’s Sishupala
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following pair is/are correctly matched?
(a) Adinathacharita -Vardhamana
(b) Shantinathacharita -Devachandra
(c) Prithvichandracharita - Shantisuri
(d) All of these
✓ “Which of the following pair is/are correctly matched?
(a) Kavyamimansa - Rajashekhara
(b) Desharupa - Dhananjaya
(c) Saraswati Kanthabharana - Bhoja
(d) All of these
✓ Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?
(a) Prasannararaghava - Jayadeva
(b) Kranasundari - Bilhana
(c) Lalitavigrahraja - Somadeva
(d) All of the above
✓ Which of the following books was written by Bhoja of Paramara dynasty on astronomy?
(a) Rajmasiganka
(b) Nitisara
(c) Kavikanthabharana
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following books was written by Madhava on pathology?
(a) Nidan or Rigvimshchana
(b) Yogaratna Samachchhaya
(c) Siddayoga
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Siddhayoga - Brinda
(b) Yogaratnasamuchachhaya -Chandratha
(c) Chikitsakalika - Tista
(d) All of the above
✓ Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Krityakalpataru - Lakshmidhara
(b) Chaturvarga Chintamani - Hemadri
(c) Dayabhaga – Ujmutavahana
(d) All of the above
✓ Which of the following texts enumerate eighteen titles of land and adds that fourteen of these have their origin in property and four in injury?
(a) Narada smriti
(b) Brihaspati smriti
(c) Vishnu smritl
(d) None of these
✓ Kalidas graced the court of Vikramaditya, the king of Ujjaini, who has been identified with
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Skandagupta
(d) Kumaragupta I
✓ Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Dasakumaracharita – Dandin
(b) Vasavadatta - Subhandhu
(c) Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma
(d) All of the above
✓ Who of the following saints occupy a very high position. The hymns composed by him were collected into eleven tirmurais which are held in great veneration by the people of India?
(a) Tirumular
(b) Sundermurti
(c) Andal
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following books contain special chapter on the study of plants and gardens, forest, crops and manure etc. ?
(a) Brihat samhita
(b) Amarakosha
(c) Prakrista prakasa
(d) Both (a) and (b)
✓ Which of the following inscriptions give detail about the guilds of silk weaver and corporate activities of the period?
(a) Ayodhya inscription
(b) Mathura inscription
(c) Madsor inscription
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following places were the great centres of Buddhism?
(a) Sanchi
(b) Sarnath
(c) Gaya
(d) All of the above
✓ Vaishnavism centred around the Vasudeva cult of Bhagavata religion where Vasudeva Krishna is identified with the Vedic deity
(a) Shiva
(b) Vishnu
(c) Pushan
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following Upanishad eulogised Shiva and his consort Uma as supreme deities?
(a) Kena Upanishad
(b) Brihdaranyaka Upanishad
(c) Chandogya Upanishad
(d) None of these
21. Which of the following inscriptions mention the construction and repair of sun temple by the guild of weavers?
(a) Pataliputra inscription
(b) Junagarh inscription
(c) Mathura inscription
(d) Mandsor inscription
✓ The earliest examples of Dravidian style temple is the rock-cut temple known as Dharmaraja ratha at
(a) Badami
(b) Kanchi
(c) Mamallapuram
(d) None of these
✓ Astanga-sangraha and the Astanga hirdaya-samhita are assigned to two different authors by the same name
(a) Aryabhata
(b) Varahamihira
(c) Vagabhata
(d) None of these
✓ Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Manuvritti – Govindaraja
(b) Smrityarthasara - Shridhara
(c) Yajnavalkya smriti – Apararka
(d) All of the above
✓ Fromwhich of the following books we get the scientific knowledge of agriculture?
(a) Abhidhanaratanamala
(b) Dasharupa
(c) Krityakalpataru
(d) All of the above
✓ Which of the following sects was raised into prominence by Basava, the prime minister of the Kalachuri king Bijjala?
(a) Vajrayana
(b) Virasaivas
(c) Jainism(Swetambar)
(d) None of these
✓ The great achievement of Sankara is that he organised the ten branches of Advaita school of Saivism, known as
(a) Dashanamis
(b) Advaita
(c) Duita-Duita
(d) None of these
✓ Several excellent Nagar style temples stil l stand at Khajuraho in Bundelkhand. These temples were built by the
(a) Kushanas
(b) Chandelas
(c) Rashtrakutas (d) All of these
✓ In Kashmir, the sun temple called the Martanda temple was built by
(a) Dulabhak
(b) Sankarvarman
(c) Lalitaditya Muktapida
(d) None of these
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