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Run the authorsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Magadha kingsRead the answer and worked solution →Ruler or textRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the coin issuersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Early states bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Mahabharata in its present form runs to about how many verses?Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the project begun in 1919 to prepare a critical edition of the Mahabharata?Read the answer and worked solution →How many years did the critical edition of the Mahabharata take to complete?Read the answer and worked solution →In Sanskrit texts, which term designates a family?Read the answer and worked solution →Tracing descent from father to son to grandson is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kauravas and Pandavas belonged to which ruling lineage?Read the answer and worked solution →Marrying daughters into families outside the kin group is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The practice of a man having several wives is termed:Read the answer and worked solution →The Manusmriti, the most important Dharmashastra, was compiled between which dates?Read the answer and worked solution →How many forms of marriage did the Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras recognise?Read the answer and worked solution →Each gotra was named after whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Satavahana rulers were named Gotami-puta or Vasithi-puta. What does puta mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Rigveda hymn describes the four varnas emanating from the body of Purusha?Read the answer and worked solution →Ekalavya, who cut off his thumb for Drona, belonged to which forest-dwelling community?Read the answer and worked solution →The Shungas and Kanvas, who succeeded the Mauryas, belonged to which varna?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Shaka ruler rebuilt the Sudarshana lake, recorded in an early Sanskrit inscription?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Satavahana king claimed to be a unique Brahmana and destroyer of Kshatriya pride?Read the answer and worked solution →A fifth-century inscription at Mandasor records the history of a guild of which craftsmen?Read the answer and worked solution →The play Mrichchhakatika, whose hero was both Brahmana and merchant, was written by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese monk wrote that untouchables had to sound a clapper in the streets?Read the answer and worked solution →Gifts a woman received at marriage, kept as her own wealth, were called:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Sutta Pitaka myth, people chose a leader paid with rice to punish wrongdoers. He was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the kinship termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the marriage termsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Run the authors

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Kautilya
    Choices
    1. Kautilya
    2. Harishena
    3. Banabhatta
  2. Correct
    Harishena
    Choices
    1. Kautilya
    2. Harishena
    3. Banabhatta
  3. Correct
    Banabhatta
    Choices
    1. Kautilya
    2. Harishena
    3. Banabhatta
  4. Correct
    Megasthenes
    Choices
    1. Megasthenes
    2. Prinsep
    3. Xuan Zang
  5. Correct
    Prinsep
    Choices
    1. Megasthenes
    2. Prinsep
    3. Xuan Zang
  6. Correct
    Xuan Zang
    Choices
    1. Megasthenes
    2. Prinsep
    3. Xuan Zang
Instructions
Pick the lane naming the author of each text.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies._

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Slice the Magadha kings

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Does not match the category
  1. Kanishka
  2. Rudradaman
  3. Harsha
  4. Prinsep
Matches the category
  1. Bimbisara
  2. Ajatasattu
  3. M. Nanda
  4. Chandragup
Instructions
Slice only the rulers of Magadha.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies._

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Ruler or text

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Upper category
Ruler
Lower category
Text
Items
  1. Category
    Ruler
    Item
    Asoka
  2. Category
    Ruler
    Item
    Kanishka
  3. Category
    Ruler
    Item
    Rudradaman
  4. Category
    Ruler
    Item
    Samudragup
  5. Category
    Text
    Item
    Jatakas
  6. Category
    Text
    Item
    Manusmriti
  7. Category
    Text
    Item
    Periplus
  8. Category
    Text
    Item
    Arthashas.
Instructions
Send each name to ruler or to text.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies._

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