Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 10

Nalanda was founded by Kumaragupta I of the Gupta dynasty in the fifth century and grew into the most famous monastic university in Asia, with students from China, Tibet, Korea and South East Asia.

Gautama attained enlightenment at Uruvela, the Bodh Gaya of today, under a peepal tree on the bank of the Niranjana river, which is called the Phalgu now.

Gopala, the first king of the Pala dynasty, founded Odantapuri at the place now called Biharsharif in Nalanda district. The word vihara, meaning a Buddhist monastery, gave the region and then the state its name, and Odantapuri is the monastery most often named in that explanation.

Nalanda was a Buddhist monastic university, a mahavihara, where the main course of study was the Mahayana canon along with logic, grammar, medicine and astronomy.

He was born Farid Khan, the son of Hasan Khan, an Afghan of the Sur clan who held the jagir of Sasaram in what is now Rohtas district of Bihar.

Bihar grew by 25.42 per cent between the censuses of 2001 and 2011, the fastest among the large states of India, which is why its share in the population of the country keeps rising.

Kunwar Singh belonged to the Ujjainiya Rajput house of Jagdishpur in Shahabad district, a district since divided, so that Jagdishpur now falls in Bhojpur district of Bihar.

The First Buddhist Council met at the Sattapanni cave in Rajagriha soon after the death of the Buddha, under the patronage of Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty.

Vikramashila was founded by Dharmapala, the second and most powerful king of the Pala dynasty, in the Bhagalpur region on the Ganga, and it became second only to Nalanda as a seat of Buddhist learning, with Atisha Dipankara among its heads.

Makhana is the puffed seed of the gorgon nut plant, grown in the shallow ponds of Darbhanga, Madhubani, Saharsa and Katihar, and almost all the makhana of the country comes from this part of Bihar.

The library complex of Nalanda was called Dharmaganja, the treasury of truth, and later accounts say it stood in three buildings, Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjaka, of which Ratnodadhi is described as nine storeys high.

The Tirhut canal is the main eastern canal of the Gandak project and takes its name from the old Tirhut region of north Bihar.

It was fought on 26 June 1539 at Chausa on the Ganga, in present Buxar district of Bihar, and Sher Khan's victory broke Humayun's army; the emperor himself escaped across the river and the Mughal hold on the east collapsed.

The Sone canal system takes off at Dehri in Rohtas district, where a weir across the Sone feeds the eastern and western main canals that water Rohtas, Aurangabad, Gaya, Patna and Bhojpur; it is the oldest major canal work of the state and the mainstay of irrigation in south Bihar.

The three regiments of Indian sepoys at Danapur cantonment near Patna rose on 25 July 1857, crossed the Son river and reached Arrah, the headquarters of Shahabad district, where Kunwar Singh joined them and took command.

The three dates of this one area are the whole question: the wildlife sanctuary was notified in 1978, the national park came in 1989 and the tiger reserve in 1990, so Option A and Option B are both true statements about Valmiki but answers to different questions, which is exactly…

The Barabar group, which includes the Lomas Rishi and Sudama caves, was cut in granite in the Mauryan age for the monks of the Ajivika sect founded by Makkhali Gosala, and the inscriptions of Ashoka's grandson Dasharatha in the nearby Nagarjuni caves record further gifts to them.

Ikhtiyaruddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, a commander in the service of the Ghurids, overran the middle Ganga plain at the end of the twelfth century, sacking Odantapuri and Vikramshila and laying Nalanda waste soon after.

Sher Shah's tomb stands in the middle of a large tank at Sasaram in Rohtas district, the town whose jagir his father held, and it is the work of the architect Aliwal Khan; its octagonal plan, high plinth and great dome make it one of the finest Indo Islamic monuments…

A first relief column sent towards Arrah was ambushed and driven back, and it was the column under Major Vincent Eyre that defeated Kunwar Singh at Bibiganj in early August 1857, raised the siege of the house at Arrah and then went on to destroy Jagdishpur.