Question

True or False

1. Officers during the Gupta period were paid their salaries in cash.

2. Harsha was a patron of art and learning.

3. Hiuen Tsang spent ten years in Harsha’s court.

4. The concept of personal devotion to God is also called bhakti.

5. Kalidasa composed a prashasti in praise of Samudragupta.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.True

2.Harsha was a patron of both art and education.It's true

3.Hiuen Tsang was a Buddhist traveller who came to India during the reign of Harsha. He spent more than eight years in India and wrote a detailed account about polity of Harsha - his administration and his people.

I don't think he spent 10 years there

4.Bhakti, (Sanskrit: “devotion”) in Hinduism, a movement emphasizing the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee.

It's true

5.Harishena

Harishena was court poet of Gupta king Samudragupta. He composed a prashasti in praise of Samudragupta. This is the famous Allahabad Prashasti which describes Samudragupta as a great warrior.

It's false