Answer the following questions.
1. What was ganasanghas?
2. What what's the work of purohita in mahajanapadas?
3. Which two religions became popular?
4. What was vishti?
5. What was the capital of Lichchhavi?
6. Name four Varnas.
7. Bimbisara the first great ruler of Magadha belonged to which family?
8. What was the capital of Magadha?
Answers
Answer:
1)Gana-Sangha or Gana-Rajya was a type of Clan structure oligarchy in ancient India.
2)Duties. The duties of the purohita is to perform rites or yajna and Vedic sacrifices such as ashvamedha in favour of a sponsor. Since Vedic times the sponsor of the sacrifice, or yajamāna was only a distant participant while the hotṛ or brahman took his stead in the ritual.
3)•Hinduism (15%)
•Buddhism (7.1%)
•Sikhism (0.35%)
•Jainism (0.06%)
•Other (77.49%)
4)Vishti was form of forced labour extracted by either state, provincial governor or local chief. It is also mentioned on Gupta era copper inscriptions that enlist variety of taxes. Junagarh inscription mentions vishti as one form of tax, which indicates that it was extracted from Gujarat and Malwa region.
5)Vaishali
Licchavi, also spelled Lichchhavi, a people of northern India. They settled (6th–5th century bce) on the north bank of the Ganges (Ganga) River in what is now Bihar state; their capital city was at Vaishali.
6)The varnas have been known since a hymn in the Rigveda (the oldest surviving Indian text) that portrays the Brahman (priest), the Kshatriya (noble), the Vaishya (commoner), and the Shudra (servant) issued forth at creation from the mouth, arms, thighs, and feet of the primeval person (purusha).
7)543 – 492 BC or c. 400 BC) and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty. He was the son of Bhattiya. His expansion of the kingdom, especially his annexation of the kingdom of Anga to the east, is considered to have laid the foundations for the later expansion of the Mauryan Empire.
8)The ancient city of Pataliputra was founded in the 5th century bce by Ajatashatru, king of Magadha (South Bihar). His son Udaya (Udayin) made it the capital of Magadha, which it remained until the 1st century bce.