UGC NET History Practice Question

Which Megalithic burial type is characterized by stone slabs assembled to form a box-like chamber, often with a port-hole entrance?

Cairn Circle

Dolmen ✓

Menhir

Urn Burial

A dolmen consists of large stone slabs (orthostats) forming a box-like burial chamber, sometimes with a circular "port-hole" cut into one slab for symbolic entry/exit — a common South Indian Megalithic burial type distinct from single-stone menhirs or urn burials.

The Mahavamsa and Dipavamsa are historical chronicles composed in which country that serve as key sources for Ashokan history?

Nepal

Tibet

Sri Lanka ✓

Myanmar

The Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa are Pali chronicles composed in Sri Lanka, tracing the island's Buddhist and dynastic history back to Ashoka's reign and his son/daughter Mahinda and Sanghamitta's mission — vital, though partly legendary, sources for Mauryan-era Buddhism.

In ancient Indian numismatics, the term Nishka in the early Vedic period originally signified:

Standardized gold coin

Gold ornament or necklet used as a unit of value ✓

Silver ingot

Copper token

In the Rigveda, Nishka refers to a gold ornament (likely a necklet) used as a store/unit of value in a pre-coinage barter economy — it only later, in some contexts, came to loosely denote a coin, so the earliest Vedic sense is ornamental, not monetary in the modern sense.

Which Chinese monk wrote the record titled Fo-Guo-Ji (A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms) detailing his travels during the Gupta period?

Xuanzang

Faxian ✓

Yijing

Hyecho

Faxian travelled through India c. 399-414 CE, during Chandragupta II's reign, and recorded his journey in the Fo-Guo-Ji — an invaluable eyewitness account of Gupta-era administration, Buddhism, and society, predating Xuanzang's visit by over two centuries.

The Hathigumpha Inscription of King Kharavela is inscribed on the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar in which script?

Kharosthi

Brahmi ✓

Tamil-Brahmi

Devanagari

The Hathigumpha Inscription, King Kharavela of Kalinga's own detailed autobiographical record, is written in Brahmi script and Prakrit language — a major source for the political history of Kalinga and one of the longest early royal prashastis.

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