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Which horse sacrifice did Samudragupta perform to prove imperial sovereignty?Read the answer and worked solution →Which title, meaning Brave as the Sun, did Chandragupta II take?Read the answer and worked solution →Which city became a second capital under Chandragupta II after his western conquests?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese Buddhist monk visited India under Chandragupta II?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Faxian say most offences were punished in Gupta lands?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gupta-era playwright wrote Shakuntala?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gupta ruler is said to have founded Nalanda?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Central Asian people did Skandagupta repel around 455 CE?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two Hun leaders broke through Gupta defences around 490?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Malwa king helped drive the Huns out of India in 528?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gupta astronomer explained that the Moon shines by reflected sunlight?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gupta-era Ayurveda text has innovative chapters on surgery?Read the answer and worked solution →Which famous Gupta-era metal monument resists corrosion strongly?Read the answer and worked solution →Which game is said to have developed in the Gupta period from caturanga?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Guptas, a Vishayapati was the lord of which unit?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the oldest layer of the Vedas?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Bharata chief won the Battle of the Ten Kings?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Rigvedic river is the modern Ravi?Read the answer and worked solution →Which new tribe did the Bharatas and Purus form after the Ten Kings war?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two tribal councils restricted the power of the early Vedic rajan?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the chief of an early Vedic tribe called?Read the answer and worked solution →After 1000 BCE, which tools helped Vedic tribes clear the Gangetic forests?Read the answer and worked solution →Which later Vedic varna was linked with cattle rearing, agriculture and production?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kingdom is described as the earliest Vedic state?Read the answer and worked solution →Which king of Videha patronised sages like Yajnavalkya and Gargi?Read the answer and worked solution →By the 6th century BCE, large kingdoms in the Vedic world were called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose grammar marked the apex of Sutra codification and the start of Classical Sanskrit?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Persian dynasty's invasion of the Indus valley began outside influence in India?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Vedic economy, what served as a unit of currency for barter?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Vedic fire god acted as messenger between humans and the deities?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which horse sacrifice did Samudragupta perform to prove imperial sovereignty?

  1. Rajasuya
  2. Agnishtoma
  3. Vajapeya
  4. Ashvamedha
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Correct answer: D. Ashvamedha

The Ashvamedha was a horse sacrifice used by ancient kings to prove their sovereignty.

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Which title, meaning Brave as the Sun, did Chandragupta II take?

  1. Mahendraditya
  2. Baladitya
  3. Chakravartin
  4. Vikramaditya
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Correct answer: D. Vikramaditya

Chandragupta II ruled from 375 to 415 and was known as Vikramaditya.

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Which city became a second capital under Chandragupta II after his western conquests?

  1. Kausambi
  2. Taxila
  3. Mathura
  4. Ujjain
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Correct answer: D. Ujjain

After defeating the Western Kshatrapas he made Ujjain a second capital, the high point of the empire.

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