UGC NET History Practice Question

The ancient city of Taxila served as the capital of which Mahajanapada?

Gandhara ✓

Kamboja

Matsya

Surasena

Taxila (Takshashila) was the capital of the Gandhara Mahajanapada in the northwest, and later became a renowned center of learning under the Mauryas and subsequent Indo-Greek, Kushana, and other regimes.

Which Mauryan official was in charge of weights and measures according to Kautilya's Arthashastra?

Pautavadhyaksha ✓

Sitadhyaksha

Panyadhyaksha

Navadhyaksha

The Pautavadhyaksha was the Superintendent of Weights and Measures in Kautilya's administrative scheme, responsible for standardizing and regulating commercial measures — distinct from the Sitadhyaksha (agriculture) and Panyadhyaksha (trade/commerce).

The famous iron pillar at Mehrauli records achievements attributed to King Chandra, associated with defeating which enemy confederacy across the seven mouths of the Indus?

Hunas

Vahlikas ✓

Shakas

Yavanas

The Mehrauli Iron Pillar inscription credits "Chandra" with crossing the seven mouths of the Indus in battle and defeating the Vahlikas (a northwestern people) — used alongside other evidence to support his identification with Chandragupta II.

Under the Guptas, what was the administrative unit immediately below the Bhukti (province) called?

Vishaya ✓

Grama

Vithi

Desha

The Gupta administrative hierarchy ran Bhukti (province) > Vishaya (district) > Vithi (sub-division) > Grama (village) — the Vishaya, headed by a Vishayapati, was the key district-level unit immediately below the province.

The Junagadh Inscription records that during the reign of Skandagupta, the embankment of Sudarshana Lake was repaired by his local governor named:

Parnadatta and his son Chakrapalita ✓

Harisena

Virasena

Amrakardava

Skandagupta's Junagadh inscription records that his governor Parnadatta, and Parnadatta's son Chakrapalita, oversaw the repair of the Sudarshana Lake dam after it was breached — the same lake repaired earlier by Ashoka and Rudradaman I, showing its long administrative importance.

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