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| 21. | Where else was the polished monolith Ashoka Pillar, which was carved into single pieces of pyrolithic valucasm, usually extracted from the quarries of? |
A. Chunar near Mirzapur | |
B. Laurianandan Garh | |
C. Sarnath near Varanasi | |
D. Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar |
| 22. | Whose saying is ‘Indians do not know the art of writing’? |
A. Kautilya | |
B. Pliny | |
C. Plutarch | |
D. Megasthenes |
| 23. | Which Mauryan emperor requested a foreign king, Antiochus I of Syria, to send figs, wine and philosopher to India? |
A. Chandra Gupta | |
B. Bindusara | |
C. Ashoka | |
D. Kunal |
| 24. | Which is the most important source for information about Ashoka’s attack on Kalinga? |
A. Mahavansh | |
B. Donation | |
C. 13th Great Inscription | |
D. 7th column inscription |
| 25. | Ashoka was the governor of a province at the time of Bindusara’s death. Identify this province as? |
A. Ujjain | |
B. Takshshila | |
C. Suvarnagiri | |
D. Tosli |
| 26. | In which inscription Ashoka has declared that all human beings are his children? |
A. Isolated Kalinga inscription | |
B. 2nd large inscription | |
C. 5th Great Inscription | |
D. Equal cavity article |
| 27. | Which declaration explains Ashoka’s inner sorrow for war and violence? |
A. Girnar Rock Edict | |
B. Mansehra inscription | |
C. 5th Great Inscription | |
D. Isolated inscription of kalinga |
| 28. | In which inscription is Ashoka’s declaration ‘At any time, whether I eat or rest with the queen or I am in my antashala, wherever I may be, my greatness may approach me for public work? |
A. 2nd inscription | |
B. 4th inscription | |
C. 5th inscription | |
D. 6th Rock Edict |
| 29. | Which of the following names the district level officers in descending order? |
A. Territorial | |
B. Rajuk, Yuktaka, Territorial | |
C. Territorial | |
D. Devicer, Regional, Ruler |
| 30. | ‘Vishti’ is – |
A. Wedding ceremony | |
B.Forced labor | |
C. Province | |
D. District |