79 A1 Chandra Gupta Mourya and Bindusara 7 Mar

 Chandragupta Maurya (322-298 BC)

 

Qts 1.Who was Guru for Chandra Guptha  Mourya

Chanakya

 

Qts 2. What was another name for Chanakya

Koutilya or Vishnu Gupta

 

Qts 3. Who wrote Artha shastra

Koutilya

 

Qts 4. What Artha shastra deals

State craft or Politics

 

Qts 5. How Chandra Gupta Mourya became Emperor

Through overthrowing the Nanda ruler  and established the rule of the Maurya dynasty.

 

Qts 6.  What was another name for Chadndra Gupta Mourya

Sandrocottus  (name given by Greeks)

 

Qts 7. Write territories ruled by Chandra Gupta Mourya

Present  Afghanistan, Pakistan, North East South India

 

Qts8. Who was Seleucus Nikator

He was  General of Alexander

 

Qts 9.Where Seleucus Nikator ruled

Afghanistan

 

Qts 10. Who won in War between Seleucus Nikator and Chandra Gupta Mourya

Chandra Gupta Mourya Won

 

Qts11.Who was Megasthenes

Megasthenes was Scholar under Seleucus

 

Qts 12. Who sent Megasthenes to Chandra Gupta Mourya Kingdom

Seleucus

 

QTs 13. Who wrote Indica

Megasthenes

 

Qts 14. Who wrote Mudrarakshasa a Drama

Vishakadatta

 

QTs 15. Who converted Chandra Gupta Mourya to Jainism

Bhadrabahu

 

Qts 16. What is meat  by Sallekhana

Fasting up to Death

 

Qts 17. Where Chandra Gupta Mourya Died

Chandragiri Hills at Shravanabelagola

 

Qts 18. Who was Bindusara

He was Son of Chandra Gupta Mourya

 

Qts 19. What was another name of Bindusara

Amitraghat or Amitrochates (given by Greek)


Qts20. Who was Antiochus I

He was ruler of Syria

Bindusara asked Antiochus I of Syria to send some sweet wine, dried figs and a sophist

 Antiochus I sent wine and figs but politely replied that Greek philosphers are not for sale.

 

Qts21. Who were Ajvikas

Ajvikas were nontheistic religious sect greatly resembling Jainism that was founded by the Indian teacher Maskarin Gosala,

Ajvikas were  contemporary of the Buddha and Mahavira,

Ajvikas  flourished from the 6th to the 3rd centuries b.c. as a rival of Buddhism and Jainism.

 

Qts 22. Who patranised Ajvikas

Bindusara 

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