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Important Question from Ancient India

1) The source of Swastika symbol - Indus Valley
2) Who is considered as the father of Indian archaeoloy - Alexander Cunningham
3) Meter scale has been discovered from ......... Harappa
4) Weapon never used by the Indus people - Sword
5) What was the major industry in Chanhudaro? Bead making
6) The word ‘Sindhan’ used by the Indus people denoted - Cotton
7) Evidence of fractional burial has been excavated from - Harappa
8) The word ‘godhume’ used in the vedic period denote - Wheat
9) ‘Yava’ denoted - Barley
10) Term used to denote rice in the vedic text - Vrihi
11) Vedic term sita denoted - Ploughed field
12) Which veda mentions about wheel - Rigveda
13) Vedi terms ‘Urvara’ or ‘kshetra’ denoted - Cultivated field
14) The famous frog hymn in Rig Veda throws light to - Vedic education
15) Who was considered as the god of the vedas? Varuna
16) Rigvedic term ‘Duhitri’ denoted - Milker of cows
17) Method used to calculate the number of cows in the Vedic period - Ashtakarni
18) Part of which veda has prose part - Yajur Veda
19) Who spread Aryan religion in South India - Agasthya
20) Vedic term ‘Aghanya’ denotes - Cows
21) The term ‘Bharata’ and ‘Bharatavarsha’ were first used in - Rig Veda
22) Upanishad which mentions the four Ashramas of Vedic period - Jabala Upanishad
23) Largest number of hymns in Rigveda a are in praise of - Indra
24) First town in the vedic period to use burned bricks - Kausambi
25) First reference about lending money for interest can be found in - Satpatha Brahmana
26) Rigvedic paintings have been discovered from Bhagvanpura. It is in which state - Hariyana
27) Upanishad which mentions about police system - Brihadaranyaka Upanishads
28) God who was considered as God of Gods - Varuna
29) Community which was considered as untouchables by the Buddhists. - Chandalas
30) The language used by the Jains to spread their religion - Prakrit
31) Who is considered as the St.John of Buddhism - Ananda
32) Who is considered as Devil by the Buddhists - Mara
33) Three daughters of ‘Mara’ - lust, emotion and desire
34) The ruler who persecuted Buddhists - Pushyamitrasunga
35) Major philosophic school of Bhagvatism - Vishishtadvaita
36) Earliest reference about Srikrishna can be found in - Chandoghya Upanishad
37) Hindu God who found place in Greek literature - Sri Krishna
38) Jain Thirthankara, who was related to Sri Krishna - Rishabhadeva (Ist Thirthankara)
39) Tamil god of the Sangham age for War and Victory - Kottavai
40) Saint who founded the Saivism - Lakulisa
41) Tamil kingdom of the Sangham Age which sent an ambassador to the court of Roman Emperor
Augusts - Pandyas
42) First Sangham was founded by - Saint Agasthya
43) Famous poetess of the Sangham period - Avvaiyar
44) Greeco-Roman traders who visited South India during the Sangham period were denoted with the term - Yavanas
45) Sangham work which describes about Buddhism - Manimekhalai
46) The word used by Ashoka to denote Buddha - Bhagavati
47) Ashokan inscriptions were desciphered by James prince in the year - 1837
48) Indo-Greek ruler who had his boundaries upto Pataliputra - Menander
49) Yuchi ruler who introduced gold coins for the first time - Vima Kadphesus
50) Edict which mentions about the relation between India and China - Nagarjunakonda

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