Answer the following in one or few words.
1. Warrior chiefs who were acknowledged by the king as their subordinates
2. Author of Shahnama
3. High sounding titles adopted by the kings
4. Sanskrit term which means 'son of a king'
5. The struggle between Palas, Gurjara Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas
6. The land grants made to the temples by the Chola rulers
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During the seventh century, there were many big landlords or warrior chiefs in the subcontinent, who were often acknowledged by the kings as their subordinates or samantas. The samantas were expected to do the following for the kings or the overlords.
The Shahnama or Book of Kings is an epic poem written in 1010 and containing about 60,000 couplets. Its author was Abu Al-Qasim Firdausi
The high-sounding titles adopted by the new kings were maharaja-adhiraja (great king, overlord of kings), tribhuvana-chakravartin (lord of the three worlds) and so on.
Chakravarti
Chakravarti (Sanskrit term
The Tripartite Struggle for control of northern India took place in the ninth century. The struggle was between the Pratihara Empire, the Pala Empire and the Rashtrakuta Empire. Epigraphist Dineschandra Sircar, however, added a different perspective to this struggle
According to Chola inscriptions, there were five types of 'land gifts' that Chola kings gave to their people:
vellanvagai was land for non-Brahmana, peasant proprietors.
brahmadeya was land gifted to Brahmanas.
shalabhoga was land for the maintenance of a school.
devadana / tirunamattukkani was land gifted to temples.