ANSWER – B
The name of Audumbaras and Kunindas was not found in Samudragupta’s Allahabad Pillar inscription they came to an end probably sometime in 4th Century A.D.
Kuninda republic was fragmented into Brahmapura, Govisana and Kartipur.
By the 4th Century A.D., new dynasties in Sirmaur and Bushahr regions came into existence.
ANSWER – D
Toramana was chief of a central Asian Tribe, the Hunas. They entered in the Punjab and settled there. From there, they moved towards the Yamuna valley and overcame the reigning Gupta King.
He was succeeded by his son Mihiragula who was very cruel. In 520 A.D., Mihiragula was defeated at Kabrur near Multan by the United forces of Indian princes under the command of Baladitya of Magadha and Yashodharman of Malwa.
ANSWER – D
The great Chinese piligrim Hiuen-Tsang visited India during the period of Harsha. He stayed here for 13 years, from A.D. 630-644, and visited a very large part of Indian territory including the parts of Himachal Pradesh.
In 635 A.D. he visited Jalandhar the capital city of Jalandhar-Trigarta and remained there as a guest of Raja Utitas for four months, who has been identified with the Adima of the Vamshavall (genealogy).
Hiuen-Tsang stayed at Surugna(Sirmaur) with the monk Jaya-Guptam.
ANSWER – B
Vishakhadatta’s play ‘DEVICHANDRAGUPTAM’ is the story related to Ram Gupta, Dhruva Devi and Chandragupta II .
Ban Bhattha also mentioned in his book ‘Harshacharita‘ that the Saka King possessed lust, for another wife.
Mujmalu-i Twarikh, an Arabic Folklore translated in Persian by Abdul Husain Ali in A.D 1226 also made reference to a similar version. In this book, Ram Gupta has been named as Rawal and Chandragupta II as Barkamaris.
ANSWER – C
The Pehoa inscription of Mihira Bhoja describes that his armies carried invasion upto Karnal.
ANSWER – A
ANSWER – C
In his return journey from Kanauj in A.D. 643, Hiuen-Tsang again visited Jalandhar. He has left a vivid account of the Jalandhar Kingdom.
According to him, the kingdom was spread about 1000 Li or 267 kms from East to West, and about 800 Li or 213 kms from North to South, the capital was 12 to 13 Li in Circuit.
The people were brave and rustic in appearance, houses were rich and well planned, land was fertile and useful for the cultivation of rice and pulses, climate was warm and moist.
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