The Ashokan pillar now standing at Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi was brought by Firoz Shah Tughlaq from which place in Haryana?
- A.Agroha
- B.Topra
- C.Sugh
- D.Thanesar
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Topra. The pillar was brought from Topra in Yamunanagar district to Delhi by Firoz Shah Tughlaq in the fourteenth century and set up at his new city of Firozabad, where it still stands at Firoz Shah Kotla. It carries the seven pillar edicts of Ashoka, and it was from readings of this pillar and of others like it that James Prinsep worked out the Brahmi script in 1837. A second pillar was brought by the same sultan from Meerut.
Option A, Agroha in Hisar district, is an ancient trading town known for coins bearing the legend of Agodaka and connected by tradition with Maharaja Agrasen. Option C, Sugh in Yamunanagar district, is the ancient Srughna that the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang visited; it is in the same district as Topra, which makes it the best distractor here. Option D, Thanesar, was the capital of the Pushyabhuti dynasty and the early seat of Harshavardhana, not the source of the pillar.
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- A.Askini
- B.Parushni
- C.Vipash
- D.Vitasta
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- A.Bhagavad Gita
- B.Atharva Veda
- C.Rig Veda
- D.Manusmriti
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- A.Samaveda
- B.Atharvaveda
- C.Rigveda
- D.Yajurveda
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- 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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