Question

Short answer questions.
Write a few lines about the Shungas and the Kanvas.
What do we mean by Sangam literature?
Who were the uzhavars and adimais?
Write a few lines about the Indo-Greek rulers.
Write a brief note on Kanishka.​

Answer 1

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1)The Buddhist text, Divvavadana described that the Sungas belonged to the Maurya-family. But historians do not accept this view. The majority of them described that Pushyamitra, the founder of the Sunga dynasty in Magadha was a Brahamana. However, they have differed concerning their Kula. In his text, Malvikagnimitra, Kalidas described that the Sungas belonged to Bembic-family of the Brahamanas.

2)Sangam means a gathering of learned men. The literature compiled in such gatherings is known as 'Sangam Literature'. It is the most ancient literature in Tamil. A whole time period is labelled after this known as the Sangam Age.

3)In the Tamil region, large land owners were known as Vellalar, ordinary ploughmen were known as uzhavar, and landless labourers, including slaves, were known as Kadaisiyar and adimai.

4)The Greeks in the Indian Subcontinent were eventually divided from the Graeco-Bactrians centered on Bactria (now the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan), and the Indo-Greeks in the present-day north-western Indian Subcontinent. The most famous Indo-Greek ruler was Menander (Milinda).

5)A descendant of Kujula Kadphises - founder of the Kushan empire - Kanishka came to rule an empire in Bactria extending from Turfan in the Tarim Basin to Pataliputra on the Gangetic plain. The main capital of his empire was located at Puruṣapura in Gandhara, with another major capital at Kapisa. Gold coin of Kanishka.

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