Thanesar in Haryana was the capital of which dynasty?
- A.Yaudheya
- B.Pushyabhuti or Vardhana
- C.Tomara
- D.Chauhan
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The correct answer is B, Pushyabhuti or Vardhana. Thanesar, the ancient Sthanvishvara in Kurukshetra district, was the capital of the Pushyabhuti dynasty, also called the Vardhana dynasty from the ending of its kings' names. Prabhakaravardhana made it a power, and after the death of his elder son Rajyavardhana the throne passed in 606 to Harshavardhana, who later moved his capital to Kannauj. Harsha's court poet Banabhatta wrote the Harshacharita, and the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang travelled in his reign.
Option A, the Yaudheyas, were a republican tribe of this region in the centuries around the beginning of the Christian era, known from the coin moulds of Khokhrakot in Rohtak, but they had no single capital of this kind. Option C, the Tomaras, are associated with Dhillika, the early Delhi, and with Anangpur near Faridabad. Option D, the Chauhans of Ajmer, ruled this country only after they took Delhi from the Tomaras, and it was on Haryana soil, at Tarain, that they met Muhammad Ghori.
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View allThe Vedic Aryans lived in the area called Sapt-Sindhu, which means area drained by seven rivers. One of the rivers among the seven is Jhelum. What was its ancient name?
- A.Askini
- B.Parushni
- C.Vipash
- D.Vitasta
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The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.
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- A.Bhagavad Gita
- B.Atharva Veda
- C.Rig Veda
- D.Manusmriti
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The Gayatri Mantra first appears in the third mandala of the Rigveda and is ascribed to the sage Vishvamitra. It is addressed to Savitr, the sun, and it is composed in the Gayatri metre, from which it takes its popular name.
Read the full explanation →Satapatha Brahmana and Taittiriya Brahmana are the Brahmana texts of ______
- A.Samaveda
- B.Atharvaveda
- C.Rigveda
- D.Yajurveda
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Read the full explanation →Which of the three Gods were especially important in the Rigvedic period?
- A.Rudra, Vishnu and Indra
- B.Agni, Indra and Soma
- C.Indra, Varun and Rudra
- D.Agni, Indra and Vishnu
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Read the full explanation →The Harappan site of Rakhigarhi is located in which district of Haryana?
- A.Fatehabad
- B.Hisar
- C.Rohtak
- D.Bhiwani
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Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district and covers the land of two villages, Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur, on a dried channel of the Drishadvati, today called the Chautang.
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