Early Societies In India Set 6

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This set of Early Societies in India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early Societies In India Set 6

Q1 | The 23rd Thirthankara, ………………. was a historical figure.
Q2 | Parswanath was the fore- runner of ………., the founder of historicalJainism.
Q3 | Vardhamana Mahavira, the 24th Thirthankara of …… was a Kshatriyaof high position.
Q4 | Vardhamana Mahavira was born at Kundala grama at …… in 540B.C.
Q5 | Vardhamana Mahavira married …… and a daughter was born to him.
Q6 | Vardhamana Mahavira attained Nirvana at the age of 72 at Pava insouth …………...
Q7 | …………… taught that the Salvation is possible by the observance of the three Jewels (three ratnas) viz, Right knowledge, Right belief andRight conduct.
Q8 | By the end of the 4th century B.C. there appeared a great division among the followers of ………….. one section came to be known as‘Digambaras’.The other section known as Swethambaras.
Q9 | According to the Jain accounts a terrible famine ravaged North Indiain the time of ……………… and lasted for twelve years.
Q10 | Half of the Jain community lead by their saints Badrabahu moved andsettled down in a place called Sravana Balgola in …………….
Q11 | Chandra Gupta Maurya attained Nirvana by slow starvation anddeath, having become a …………… Monk.
Q12 | When the famine ended, the emigrants came back to the North and found that the Jains who remained in North India had given up theiroriginal strict Jain way of life.They were condemned by the followers of ………………. as heretics.
Q13 | Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism was the son ofSuddhodana, the chief of the Sakya republican clan of ……………….
Q14 | One day as he was sitting under the Bodhi tree at ………….. and meditating, enlightenment dawned upon him and thus he became the Buddha or the enlightened one.
Q15 | Gautama Buddha passed away at the age of 80 at Kusi nagara in…………..
Q16 | Buddha preached his followers the ……………. ‘Noble Truths’concerning sorrow, the cause of sorrow, the destruction of sorrow and the ways removing of sorrow.
Q17 | According to ……………… the ‘Noble Eight fold path’ is the means toover come desire and get liberation from birth and rebirth.
Q18 | The Eight Fold path of ………….. is also called the’ Middle path’.
Q19 | Buddhism spread far and wide under ………….. patronage.
Q20 | After the ………….. period reaction set in against Buddhism and it wasdivided into Hinayanism and Mahayanism.
Q21 | The Hinayanists followed the original teachings of ………….. withoutany fundamental change.
Q22 | The ……………. are a collection of philosophical texts which form thetheoretical basis for theHindu religion.
Q23 | The term ‘Gahapathi’ occurs in the …………….. literature in the senseof the head of a household.
Q24 | The …………… ‘Anguttara Nikaya’ describes the society consisting ofthree states; Brahmana, Kshatriya and Gahapathi.
Q25 | The word ‘Gramani’ appears in both …………. and early Pali literature.
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