History Ancient India - MCQs

History Ancient India - MCQs – Set 3

Ratnagiri, Odisha

Q.1. Which of the following foreign travellers was the first to visit India?

(a) Fa-Hien

(b) Hiuen Tsang

(d) I-Tsing

Q.2. The third Buddhist council was held under whose patronage?

(a) Kanishka

(b) Ashoka

(d) Ajatashatru

Q.3. The capital of Kanishka was :

(a) Purushapura

(b) Benares

(d) Sarnath

Q.4. The official court language of the Guptas was

(a) Pali

(b) Magdhi

(d) Sanskrit

Q.5. Buddhism was introduced in Nepal during the reign of

(a) Kanishka

(b) Ashoka

(d) Harshavardhana

Answers

1. c

Megasthenes came to India between 302 BCE and 288 BCE, during the reign of the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta Maurya as an ambassador of Seleucus Nicator.

Fa-Hien (Faxian) came to India between 399 CE and 414 CE, during the reign of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II .

Hiuen Tsang was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and traveler who visited India in the first half of the 7th century CE during the reign of King Harshabardha.

I-Tsing arrived in India in 673 AD.

2. b

The third council was held at Patliputra (modern Patna, capital of Bihar ) under the patronage of Great Mauryan Emperor Asoka, 236 years after the death of Buddha. Presided over by the scholar monk Moggaliputra Tissa, the council was participated in by one thousand monks. The third Buddhist Council resulted in the expulsion of several heretics.

3. a

Kanishka's capital was Purusapura (Peshawar, now in Pakistan).

4. d

The official court and administrative language of the Gupta Empire wasSanskrit

5. b

Buddhism in Nepal was introduced during the reign of Mauryan emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE .

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