Magadhan Empire

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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


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