Magadhan Empire
Rajgir or Girivraja (5 hills)
Capital of Bimbisara reign
Ashoka
First Indian king who has left his records engraved on Stones like Darius1, king of Iran
Bindusara
First Mauryan king to follow "Ajivaka" sect
Haryanka dynasty
First dynasty ever ruled Magadha
Bimbisara
Founder of Haryankas dynasty
Chandragupta Maurya 321-297 BC
Founder of Maurya dynasty
Mahapadma Nanda Ruled from Patliputra
Founder of Nanda dynasty
Khyber pass
From which pass, Alexander reached India
Kautilya
Who gave "Saptanga Theory" or seven elements of State
Dhanananda
Who is king of Nanda dynasty when Alexander attacked India 325 BC
Firuz Tughlaq
Who shifted the pillar edict of Sopara & Meerut to Delhi
260 BC
Kalinga war fought
Mahasena, Ujjaini
King & capital of Avanti in second half of sixth century BC
Prasenjit, Shravasti
King & capital of Kaushal in second half of sixth century BC
Megasthenes
Author of book "Indica"
Vishakhadatta
Author of book "Mudrarakshasa" on origin of Mauryas
Kautilya or Chanakya
Author of book Arthashastra
Udayan, Kaushambi
King & capital of Vatsa in second half of sixth century BC
Udayin
King succeeded Ajatashatru & founder of Pataliputra
Brihadratha
Last Mauryan king who killed by his army chief Pushyamitra Sunga (rise of sungas)
Rock edict XIII
Longest asokan edicts which describes horrors of Kalinga war
Ruminidei pillar edict
Which pillar edict about birth of Buddha or Shakya Muni
Ajatashatru
Who Patronised the first Buddhist council
James Prinsep 1837
Who deciphered Asokan inscription
Porus
Who fought battle with Alexander between river Jhelum & Beas
Shishunaga
Who founded Shishunaga dynasty of Magadha empire
16
How many Mahajanapadas according to the Sutta Pitaka
Pataligrama
Name the capital of Magadha empire under Ajatashatru reign
Mahendra & Daughter Sanghamitra
Name the children of Ashoka who went to Ceylon to spread Buddhism
Chandragupta Maurya
Name the first Mauryan king who become Jainism follower
Megasthenes
Name the first foreign traveller
Rock edicts & Pillar edicts (Prakrit/ Brahmi script)
Nane the form in which Asokan inscription found
Chandragupta Maurya
Seleucus who succeeded Alexander in eastern region, sent Megasthenes as his ambassador to the court of which king
Avanti
Shishunaga captured which empire
Vaishali
Shishunaga ruled from which place
Whole north India
Size of empire of Nanda dynasty
Ajatashatru
Son of Bimbisara who defeated king of Koshala & Lichchhavis tribe (Vaishali)
Bindusara
Son of Chandragupta Maurya & expanded empire to south India, Karnataka
Kalashoka
Son of Shishunaga who patronised second Buddhist council
Lichchhavis clan (with capital at Vaishali)
Vajji Mahasangha of 8 clans. In which __________ clan is most powerful
Sravanbelagola Karnataka
Where Chandragupta went with monk Bhadrabahu when famine broke
Bindusara
Which Mauryan king is called as "Amitrochates (by Greek books) or Amitraghata" (killer of enemies)
Lord Bahubali
Which idol is situated in Sravanbelagola
Mosaki edict Karnataka
Which inscription Ashoka used his real name rather than using devnama piyadassi
Jahangir
Which king shifted pillar edict of Kaushambi to Allahabad
