Answer the following:
1.Name the two works of Varahamihira.
2. Name two famous poems of Kalidasa.
3. Who restricted the career of conquest of Harshavardhana in the south?
4. Give two dissimilarities in the administration of the Vakatakas and the Guptas.
5. Name a Mahavihara of the Gupta period. Who became the famous physician of contemporary India?
6. Where is the archaeological site of Chandraketugarh located?
7. In which area of medical science did Charaka expertise?
8. By what other name was Kautiliya known?
9. In which area of medical science did Shushruta expertise?
10. Name a Mahavihara of the Gupta period.
11. Name a temple that was constructed under the patronage of the Guptas.
12. Mention the Sanskrit composition of Dandin.
13. Under whose reign did the Stupas at Sarnath and Sanchi constructed?
14. Who was the author of Amarkosha?
15. What are Dharmashastras?
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Answer:
1) But his greatest interest lay in astrology. He repeatedly emphasized its importance and wrote many treatises on shakuna (“augury”) as well as the Brihaj-jataka (“Great Birth”) and the Laghu-jataka (“Short Birth”), two works on the casting of horoscopes.
2) Kālidāsa is the author of two epic poems, Raghuvaṃśa ("Dynasty of Raghu") and Kumārasambhava (Kumara meaning son, and sambhavam meaning possibility of an event to take place, in this context it means birth. Kumarasambhavam means the birth of a son (to goddess Parvati and shiva) ).
3)Harsha (c. 590–647 CE), also known as Harshavardhana, was an Indian emperor who ruled North India from 606 to 647 CE. He was a member of the Vardhana dynasty; and was the son of Prabhakarvardhana who defeated the Alchon Huna invaders,[2] and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, a king of Thanesar, present-day Haryana. At the height of Harsha's power, his Empire covered much of North and Northwestern India, extended East till Kamarupa, and South until Narmada River; and eventually made Kannauj (in the present Uttar Pradesh state) his capital, and ruled till 647 CE.[3] Harsha was defeated by the south Indian Emperor Pulakeshin II of the Chalukya dynasty in the Battle of Narmada when Harsha tried to expand his Empire into the southern peninsula of India.
4)The Vakataka Empire (IAST: Vākāṭaka) was a dynasty from the Indian subcontinent that originated from the Deccan in the mid-3rd century CE. Their state is believed to have extended from the southern edges of Malwa and Gujarat in the north to the Tungabhadra River in the south as well as from the Arabian Sea in the west to the edges of Chhattisgarh in the east. They were the most important successors of the Satavahanas in the Deccan and contemporaneous with the Guptas in northern
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