B) Identify me (6)
1. I am a poet known as ‘Shakespeare of India’
2. I am the place where Buddha gave his first preaching.
3. I am a lake constructed by Pushyagupta in Junagadh.
4. I am the writer of Samudragupta’s ‘Prayag Prashasti’.
5. I am the line passing through the centre part of India.
6. I am the State animal of Gujarat.
Answers
Answer:
1. Kalidasa
2. Sarnath
3. Sudarshan Lake
4. Harisena
5. Tropic of Cancer
6. Lion (Asiatic lion)
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1. Poet know as Shakespeare of India
- I am Abhinava Kalidas.
2. The place where Buddha gave his first preaching.
- At Sarnath [North of Bodhgaya]
3. Lake constructed by Pushyagupta in Junagadh.
- It was Sudarshan Lake.
4. The writer of Samudragupta’s ‘Prayag Prashasti’.
- I am Harisena.
5. The line passing through the centre part of India.
- The line was Tropic of Cancer.
6. The State animal of Gujarat.
- It was Asiatic Lion.
→ Kalidasa was a classic sanskrit pote. He is often considered as the Ancient India's greatest playwright and dramatist.
→ Buddha preaching his first sermon in a deer forest at Sarnath, north of Bodhgaya, where he had experienced enlightenment some weeks prior.
→ The dam on the Sudarshan lake for irrigation was constructed by Pushyagupta, the governor during the rule of Chandragupta maurya.
→ Harisena was the court poet of Samudragupta, who mentioned the achievements of Samudragupta in the Prayag-Prasasti inscription (or Allahabad Pillar inscription).
→ Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line, at an angle of 23.50 degrees North from the Equator, that passes through the middle of India.
→ The Asiatic lion is a Panthera leo leo population surviving today only in India. Since the turn of the 20th century, its range is restricted to Gir National Park and the surrounding areas in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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