answer the following questions briefly
Answer them briefly:
1.
Mention the names of two main historical sources of Harsha.
2.
Write a short note on the 'Assemblies in the Southern Kingdoms (Draw a flow chart
to explain the answer)
3.
What were the main features of Bhakti?
4.
Who was Kanishka? Mention any 3 achievements of him.
5.
Who were Bodhisattvas?
pls answer very briefly
Answers
Answer:
1] Sources for Study of Harshavardhana's Reign:
Harshacharita written by Bana, his court poet.
●Travel accounts left by Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese traveller.
●Other important sources are dramas written by Harsha himself: Ratnavali, ●Nagananda, Priyadarshika.
●Madhuben plate inscription.
●Sonpat inscription.
2) ●The Pallava inscriptions mention assemblies known as sabhas consisting of brahmin land owners. These assemblies functioned through sub-committees that looked after irrigation, agriculture, roads, and temples.
●An Ur was a village assembly in those villages where land owners were not brahmins.
●A nagaram was an organisation of merchants.
3) ●That God is one single entity, with different names.
Bhakti, intense love and devotion, the sole thanks to salvation.
Repetition of the True Name.
Self-Surrender.
●Condemnation of rituals, ceremonies and blind faith.
Rejection of idol worship by many saints.
Open- mindedness about deciding religious matters.
4) Kanishka led various expeditions and was offered loyalty by The Saka Satraps in Gujrat and Malwa in Rajputana. Kashmir was also a part of his territory. His Central Asian possessions included Bactria, Afghanistan, Kashgarh, Yearkhand, and Khoan. His coins have been found in Mathura and Benaras.
5) They are introduced as: "Metteyyo Uttamo Rāmo, Paseno Kosalobibū, Dīghasoṇīca Caṅkīca, Subo, Todeyya Brahmano. Nāḷāgirī Pālileyyo, Bhodhisatthā imedasa anukkamena sabhodiṁ, pāpuṇissanti nāgate".
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