Kings Farmers and Towns

The early Tamil Sangam literature mentions slaves known as

• adimai.
• pannai.
• vellalar.
• uzhavar.

The Prakrit name for present-day Rajgir in Bihar was

• Rajagaha.
• Rajagraha.
• Ramgaha.
• Ramgraha.

Alexander Cunningham published a set of Asokan inscriptions in

• 1874
• 1875
• 1876
• 1877

The Arthashastra was composed by

• Banabhatta.
• Kautilya.
• Ravikirti.
• Ashvaghosha.

The first ever ruler to propagate the principles of Dhamma was

• Bimbisara.
• Chandragupta II.
• Chandragupta Maurya.
• Ashoka.

The first issue of Epigraphia Indica was published in

• 1885
• 1886
• 1887
• 1888

According to a rock inscription in Sanskrit, composed around second century CE, the Sudarshana lake was repaired by a king of the

• Indo-Greeks.
• Kushanas.
• Satavahanas.
• Rudradaman I

The Prayaga Prashasti was composed in

• Sanskrit.
• Pali.
• Prakrit.
• Brahmi.

The term 'Sovanika' was used in ancient India as reference to

• carpenter.
• goldsmith.
• potter.
• sculptor.

Megasthenes mentions a committee with six subcommittees of military, of which the fifth looked after

• chariots.
• foot-soldiers.
• horses.
• transport.