UGC NET History Practice Question

Who was the Gupta ruler defeated by the Huna invader Toramana, leading to significant disruption in Northern India?

Kumaragupta I

Skandagupta

Narasimhagupta Baladitya ✓

Budhagupta

Toramana's Huna invasion inflicted major defeats on the later Gupta rulers, with Narasimhagupta Baladitya generally identified as the king defeated, contributing to the empire's political fragmentation — though Skandagupta had earlier successfully repelled an initial Huna attack.

The Fourth Buddhist Council, during which Buddhism split into Hinayana and Mahayana sects, was held at:

Rajagriha

Vaishali

Pataliputra

Kundalavana (Kashmir) ✓

The Fourth Buddhist Council, patronized by Kanishka, was held at Kundalavana in Kashmir, where the Sarvastivada school's texts were compiled and the Mahayana-Hinayana doctrinal split is traditionally associated with this period.

Harshavardhana shifted his official political capital from Thanesar to which city?

Kanauj ✓

Ujjain

Prayag

Valabhi

Harsha moved his capital from the ancestral base at Thanesar (Sthanvishvara) to Kanauj, which became the center of his empire and a strategically important city fought over by later dynasties for centuries afterward.

The Rummindei Pillar Inscription of Ashoka is unique because it explicitly records:

Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism

Reduction of land tax (Bhaga) to one-eighth at the Buddha's birthplace ✓

Ban on animal sacrifices throughout the empire

Appointment of Dhamma Mahamattas

The Rummindei (Lumbini) Pillar Inscription records Ashoka's personal visit to the Buddha's birthplace and his order reducing the village's land tax to one-eighth (Bhaga), and exempting it from the customary grain-share (Bali) — direct epigraphic proof of the pilgrimage and specific tax relief.

Which Indo-Greek king is famous for adopting Buddhism and issuing coins with the title Soter (Savior)?

Demetrius I

Menander I (Milinda) ✓

Antialcidas

Eucratides

Menander I, protagonist of the Milindapanha dialogue with the monk Nagasena, is the Indo-Greek king most associated with Buddhist patronage/conversion and issued coins bearing the epithet "Soter" (Savior).

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