State Exams GK Questions 2026

Buddhist tradition places the Third Council at Pataliputra in Ashoka's reign under the presidency of Moggaliputta Tissa, who is credited with settling disputes in the order and with the compilation of the Kathavatthu, a work of the Abhidhamma Pitaka.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman, the earliest long inscription in polished Sanskrit, records that the embankment of the Sudarshana lake in Saurashtra was originally built by Pushyagupta, a governor of Chandragupta Maurya, and that conduits were added by Tushaspha in Ashoka's reign; it then describes the…

He was the last of the Mauryas and was killed about 185 BCE by his own commander-in-chief Pushyamitra Sunga, who then founded the Sunga dynasty with its capital at Pataliputra.

Almost all of Ashoka's inscriptions call him only Devanampiya Piyadasi, the beloved of the gods, of amiable appearance.

In the Arthashastra the Samaharta is the officer in charge of assessing and collecting the revenue of the realm from land, mines, forests, trade routes and city dues, and of keeping the accounts of income and expenditure on which the state ran.

The Sarnath capital has four lions standing back to back on an abacus that carries an elephant, a bull, a horse and a lion separated by wheels, the whole resting on an inverted lotus.

Prinsep, an official of the mint at Calcutta and secretary of the Asiatic Society, worked out the values of the Brahmi letters in 1837 and so made Ashoka's edicts readable.

It is the longest of the fourteen major rock edicts and the only source in Ashoka's own words for the war on Kalinga, the number of people killed, deported and dead of other causes, and the remorse that turned him from conquest by arms to conquest by Dhamma.

After the treaty of about 305 BCE between Chandragupta Maurya and Seleucus Nicator, the Greek ruler sent Megasthenes to Pataliputra as his ambassador.

A higher repo rate raises the cost at which banks borrow from the Reserve Bank, so they raise their own lending rates.

Under the minimum reserve system adopted in 1957 the Bank keeps assets of at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes it issues, of which gold must be worth at least one hundred and fifteen crore rupees and the rest is held in foreign securities.

The one rupee note is not a Reserve Bank note at all: it is issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance, is a legal tender note of the government and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary.

A margin requirement is the part of the value of a security that the borrower must fund from his own resources; by raising it for loans against a particular commodity the Bank can discourage credit flowing into speculation in that commodity without touching the total supply of credit.

It requires every scheduled bank to keep with the Reserve Bank a cash balance calculated on its net demand and time liabilities, and this proportion is the cash reserve ratio.

It amended the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 to insert the provisions on the inflation target and on the Monetary Policy Committee, so that the policy rate is now set by a committee and not by the Governor alone, and the framework of flexible inflation targeting became law.

Three of them come from the Reserve Bank, the Governor as chairperson, the Deputy Governor in charge of monetary policy and an officer of the Bank nominated by the Central Board, and three are appointed by the central government from among persons of ability and integrity with knowledge of economics…

In a repurchase agreement a bank sells government securities to the Reserve Bank and agrees to buy them back the next day at a fixed price; the difference is the interest, and the rate is the repo rate.

The Bank began as a shareholders' institution, and the Reserve Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 transferred its shares to the central government with effect from the first day of 1949, since when it has been fully owned by the Government of India.

This body, formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, reported in 1926 and recommended the creation of a central bank separated from the government.

In summer, as the subtropical westerly jet withdraws to the north of the plateau of Tibet, an easterly jet stream forms in the upper air over peninsular India and blows from east to west.