WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2023

Q. Which Gupta ruler saved the Gupta Empire from the invasion of the Hunas?

(A) Skandagupta
(B) Budhagupta
(C) Tathagata Gupta
(D) Vishnu Gupta

Correct Answer: (A) Skandagupta

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Q. Which Gupta ruler took the title of ‘Vikramaditya’?

(A) Chandragupta I
(B) Samudragupta
(C) Chandragupta II
(D) Skandagupta

Correct Answer: (C) Chandragupta II

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Q. Who composed ‘Nagananda’ and ‘Ratnabali’?

(A) Harshavardhana
(B) Kanishka
(C) Samudragupta
(D) Chandragupta II

Correct Answer: (A) Harshavardhana

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Q. Who had Nine Jewels in his royal court?

(A) Chandragupta II
(B) Samudragupta
(C) Chandragupta I
(D) Chandragupta Maurya

Correct Answer: (A) Chandragupta II

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2022

Q. Sasanka was the ruler of

(A) Kanauj
(B) Pataliputra
(C) Gaur
(D) Assam

Correct Answer: (C) Gaur

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Q. The Allahabad Pillar Inscription dates back to the

(A) Maurya period
(B) Gupta period
(C) Kushan period
(D) Saka period

Correct Answer: (B) Gupta period

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Q. The Chinese pilgrim Fa Hien had visited India during the reign of

(A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya
(B) Bimbisara
(C) Harshavardhan
(D) Kharvela

Correct Answer: (A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya

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Q. The Gupta Era starts from the reign of

(A) Chandragupta I
(B) Samudragupta
(C) Kumargupta
(D) Budhagupta

Correct Answer: (A) Chandragupta I

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Q. The author of ‘Harshacharit’ was

(A) Nagarjuna
(B) Banabhatta
(C) Aryabhatta
(D) Varahamihir

Correct Answer: (B) Banabhatta

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Q. The term “Sakari” was used for

(A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya
(B) Samudragupta
(C) Kumargupta
(D) Skandagupta

Correct Answer: (A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya

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Q. Who was known as the “Indian Napoleon”?

(A) Kumargupta
(B) Skandagupta
(C) Samudaurgupta
(D) Yasodharman

Correct Answer: (C) Samudaurgupta

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2020

Q. What was the ‘Araghatta’?

(A) A machine to break forts
(B) An irrigation
(C) A device to lift water
(D) A type of cloth

Correct Answer: (C) A device to lift water

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Q. Which particular city became the nodal point for trade routes running from north to south and east to west in the pre-Gupta and Gupta periods?

(A) Taxila
(B) Mathura
(C) Ujjain
(D) Vidisa

Correct Answer: (C) Ujjain

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2019

Q. Lands, during the post-Gupta period, were classified on the basis of

(A) Being cultivated and uncultivated
(B) Being irrigated and unirrigated
(C) Crops being grown on the lands
(D) All of the above

Correct Answer: (D) All of the above

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2018

Q. The theory of the emergence of feudalism in the post-Gupta period is disputed on the ground that

(A) all the lands donated were not secular land grants.
(B) the status of the peasants was not that of serfs.
(C) the brahmin donees did not always belong to the ruling class.
(D) All of the three above

Correct Answer: (D) All of the three above

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2017

Q. By whom and when the Gupta era was started?

(A) Kumargupta I in 324 CE
(B) Srigupta in 309-10 CE
(C) Chandragupta I in 319-320 CE
(D) Samudragupta in 324 CE

Correct Answer: (C) Chandragupta I in 319-320 CE

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Q. King “Chandra” of Mehrauli Iron Pillar inscription has been identified with

(A) Chandragupta Maurya
(B) Chandragupta I (Gupta)
(C) Chandrasen
(D) Chandragupta II (Gupta)

Correct Answer: (D) Chandragupta II (Gupta)

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Q. Name the author of ‘Panchatantra’ and ‘Svapna-Vasavadatta’.

(A) Kalidasa
(B) Bhasa
(C) Ashvaghosha
(D) Kalhan

Correct Answer: (B) Bhasa

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Q. The dynasty which Harshavardhan belonged to was

(A) Varmans
(B) Maukharis
(C) Pushyamitras
(D) Pushyabhutis

Correct Answer: (D) Pushyabhutis

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Q. Which of the following 7th century Chinese travellers lived for ten years in the great monastery of Nalanda?

(A) Fa Hien
(B) Hiuen Tsang
(C) Yijing
(D) Arrian

Correct Answer: (C) Yijing

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Q. Which of the following Gupta rulers is said to have embraced Buddhism towards the end of his life and also founded the Nalanda University?

(A) Skandagupta
(B) Buddhagupta
(C) Purugupta
(D) Kumaragupta I

Correct Answer: (D) Kumaragupta I

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Q. Who among the following was the first to describe Sudras as a class of agriculturists?

(A) Manu
(B) Fa Hien
(C) Hiuen Tsang
(D) Narad

Correct Answer: (B) Fa Hien

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2016

Q. Mandsor pillar inscription of the early 6th Century CE belongs to

(A) Anantavarman
(B) Mihirkula
(C) Yasodharman
(D) Toramana

Correct Answer: (C) Yasodharman

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Q. Navanityakam of the Gupta period was a book on

(A) Medicine
(B) Metallurgy
(C) Mathematics
(D) Astronomy

Correct Answer: (A) Medicine

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Q. Who among the following dynasties were the first to transfer all sources of revenue to the Brahmans?

(A) Vakatakas
(B) Guptas
(C) Pallavas
(D) Chalukyas

Correct Answer: (A) Vakatakas

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2015

Q. Kalidasa’s work include: (i) Abhigyana Sakuntalam (ii) Meghadootam (iii) Raghuvamsa (iv) Malavikagnimitram (v) Ritusamhara (vi) Kumara Sambhava

(A) All of them
(B) i, ii, iii and iv
(C) i, ii, v and vi
(D) i, iii, iv and v

Correct Answer: (A) All of them

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Q. When were the Silkworms introduced into the Byzantine empire from China, adversely affecting India’s already declining foreign trade?

(A) 451 AD
(B) 551 AD
(C) 615 AD
(D) 351 AD

Correct Answer: (B) 551 AD

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Q. With which one of the following are the later foreign immigrants like Hunas, who came after the fall of Imperial Guptas, identified?

(A) Kshatriyas
(B) Fallen Kshatriyas
(C) Culturally assimilated Rajputs
(D) Mlechchas

Correct Answer: (C) Culturally assimilated Rajputs

WBCS Mains Gupta Empire Questions 2014

Q. The Gold coins of the Gupta dynasty were known as

(A) Sataman
(B) Dinara
(C) Muhara
(D) Varaha

Correct Answer: (B) Dinara