Question

4. What do you understand by the term brahmadeya and devadana? (1)

5. What were Ur and Nagaram? (1)

6. What are prashastis? Who wrote a Sanskrit poem about the kings of Kashmir? (3)

7. How did the Rashtrakutas come to power? (3)

8. Why were taxes collected from the people? (3)

9. Why did Mahmud of Ghazni invade India? (3)

10. How did the temples become the nuclei of settlement? (5)​

Answer 1

Answer:

4.Land grants to religious institutions were called Brahmadeya, (i.e. donated to Brahmins) Devadana (donated to Gods) and Agrahara (Settlement – of priests) These lands donated to the temples and monasteries apart from being used as normal tenancy also carried a right vested with the temple authorities to call for unpaid