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Q: Who was the first ruler of Assam to perform the Ashvamedha sacrifice?

Correct Answer: Mahendra Varman - The source identifies Mahendra Varman with the Ashvamedha.

Q: Which Varman ruler sacrificed a horse as part of an attempt to defeat the Gupta Empire?

Correct Answer: Mahendra Varman - The source identifies Mahendra Varman with the Ashvamedha and conflict with Gupta power.

Q: Which ruler of Pragjyotishpur adopted an imperialist policy?

Correct Answer: Mahendra Varman - The source identifies Mahendra Varman with an expansionist policy.

Q: Which Varman ruler is said to have mastered the Atman and experienced the vision of the Supreme Soul?

Correct Answer: Mahendra Varman - The source attributes this spiritual description to Mahendra Varman.

Q: Varman ruler Mahabhutivarman was also known by which name?

Correct Answer: Bhutivarman - Mahabhutivarman is identified with Bhutivarman.

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381. Who was the first ruler of Assam to perform the Ashvamedha sacrifice?

Answer: Mahendra Varman

Pushya Varman

Bhaskar Varman

Mahendra Varman

Bhutivarman

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The source identifies Mahendra Varman with the Ashvamedha.

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382. Which Varman ruler sacrificed a horse as part of an attempt to defeat the Gupta Empire?

Answer: Mahendra Varman

Bhaskar Varman

Mahendra Varman

Narayan Varman

Bhutivarman

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The source identifies Mahendra Varman with the Ashvamedha and conflict with Gupta power.

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383. Which ruler of Pragjyotishpur adopted an imperialist policy?

Answer: Mahendra Varman

Bhaskar Varman

Mahendra Varman

Narayan Varman

Bhutivarman

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The source identifies Mahendra Varman with an expansionist policy.

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384. Which Varman ruler is said to have mastered the Atman and experienced the vision of the Supreme Soul?

Answer: Mahendra Varman

Mahendra Varman

Pushya Varman

Kalyan Varman

Bhaskar Varman

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The source attributes this spiritual description to Mahendra Varman.

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385. Varman ruler Mahabhutivarman was also known by which name?

Answer: Bhutivarman

Bhutivarman

Bhaskar Varman

Pushya Varman

Mahendra Varman

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Mahabhutivarman is identified with Bhutivarman.

#4665

386. Who wrote Harshacharita, the biography mentioning Varman ruler Bhutivarman?

Answer: Banabhatta

Shudraka

Banabhatta

Vishakhadatta

Vyasa

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Banabhatta wrote Harshacharita, the biography of Harsha Vardhana.

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387. Varman ruler Susthitavarman was famous by which title?

Answer: Sri-Mriganka

Sri-Mriganka

Sri-Bhaskar

Sri-Pushya

Sri-Mahendra

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Susthitavarman is known by the epithet Sri-Mriganka.

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388. To whom was the title 'Kumar Raja' given?

Answer: Bhaskar Varman

Bhutivarman

Bhaskar Varman

Pushya Varman

Mahendra Varman

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The source associates the title Kumar Raja with Bhaskar Varman.

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389. Who was the contemporary ruler of northern India during the reign of Bhaskar Varman?

Answer: Harshavardhana

Gopala

Harshavardhana

Samudragupta

Dhruvanarayana

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Harshavardhana was the contemporary ruler of northern India and an ally of Bhaskar Varman.

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390. Which Kamarupa ruler established friendship with Harshavardhana?

Answer: Bhaskar Varman

Balavarman

Bhaskar Varman

Pushya Varman

Bhutivarman

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Bhaskar Varman formed a diplomatic friendship with Harshavardhana.

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391. Who was Hamsavega?

Answer: An ambassador of the Varman dynasty

An ambassador of the Varman dynasty

A poet of the Varman dynasty

A writer of the Varman dynasty

A pilgrim

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Hamsavega was an envoy/ambassador sent by Bhaskar Varman to Harshavardhana.

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392. What was the name of the ambassador sent by Bhaskar Varman to Harshavardhana?

Answer: Hamsavega

Lachit

Hamsavega

Raktim

Nityapal

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Hamsavega served as Bhaskar Varman's ambassador to Harshavardhana.

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393. Which of the following was among the gifts sent by Bhaskar Varman to Harshavardhana?

Answer: Writing materials

Chariot

Silver coins

Elephant tusks

Writing materials

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The source lists writing materials among the gifts sent by Bhaskar Varman.

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394. Who was the author/composer associated with the Nidhanpur copper-plate grant?

Answer: Vasubarman

Vasubarman

Divakaraprabha

Kaliya

Dattakarna

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The Nidhanpur copper plate is associated with Vasubarman as its composer/scribe in the source.

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395. Who discovered Bhaskar Varman's coins during the excavation of Nalanda in 1917–18?

Answer: Dr. David Brainard Spooner

Richard G.M. Wheeler

Rakhaldas Banerjee

Dr. David Brainard Spooner

Dayaram Sahni

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Archaeologist David Brainard Spooner found Bhaskar Varman's coins during the Nalanda excavations.

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396. What was the purpose behind Bhaskar Varman's Nidhanpur land-grant record?

Answer: Review of Bhutivarman's land grants

Review of Bhutivarman's land grants

Review of Bhaskar Varman's land grants

Review of Balavarman's land grants

Review of Pushya Varman's land grants

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The Nidhanpur grant records the restoration/reissue of earlier grants associated with Bhutivarman.

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397. In ancient Kamarupa, to whom were 'Brahmadeya' land grants given?

Answer: Brahmins

Gods

Yogis

Brahma

Brahmins

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Brahmadeya refers to land granted to Brahmins.

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398. Bhaskar Varman issued the famous Nidhanpur copper-plate grant after which war?

Answer: Karnasuvarna

Pundravardhana

Karnasuvarna

Kamarupa

Gauda

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The source connects the Nidhanpur grant with the conflict around Karnasuvarna.

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399. Which inscription provides evidence concerning Bhaskar Varman's defeat of Gauda ruler Shashanka?

Answer: Nidhanpur copper plate

Nidhanpur copper plate

Dubi copper plate

Prayagraj pillar

D-Parvatiya

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The Nidhanpur copper plate contains information relevant to Bhaskar Varman's relations with Gauda.

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400. What is described in the Nidhanpur copper plate?

Answer: Both A and B

Genealogy of the Varman dynasty

Land granted to Brahmins

Only A

Both A and B

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The Nidhanpur record gives the Varman genealogy and details of land grants to Brahmins.

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Assam History

381. Who was the first ruler of Assam to perform the Ashvamedha sacrifice?

382. Which Varman ruler sacrificed a horse as part of an attempt to defeat the Gupta Empire?

383. Which ruler of Pragjyotishpur adopted an imperialist policy?

384. Which Varman ruler is said to have mastered the Atman and experienced the vision of the Supreme Soul?

385. Varman ruler Mahabhutivarman was also known by which name?

386. Who wrote Harshacharita, the biography mentioning Varman ruler Bhutivarman?

387. Varman ruler Susthitavarman was famous by which title?

388. To whom was the title 'Kumar Raja' given?

389. Who was the contemporary ruler of northern India during the reign of Bhaskar Varman?

390. Which Kamarupa ruler established friendship with Harshavardhana?

391. Who was Hamsavega?

392. What was the name of the ambassador sent by Bhaskar Varman to Harshavardhana?

393. Which of the following was among the gifts sent by Bhaskar Varman to Harshavardhana?

394. Who was the author/composer associated with the Nidhanpur copper-plate grant?

395. Who discovered Bhaskar Varman's coins during the excavation of Nalanda in 1917–18?

396. What was the purpose behind Bhaskar Varman's Nidhanpur land-grant record?

397. In ancient Kamarupa, to whom were 'Brahmadeya' land grants given?

398. Bhaskar Varman issued the famous Nidhanpur copper-plate grant after which war?

399. Which inscription provides evidence concerning Bhaskar Varman's defeat of Gauda ruler Shashanka?

400. What is described in the Nidhanpur copper plate?

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