18. Who among the following continued the Rajtarangini of Kalhana? [UPPCS (Pre) 2000]
(A) Bilhana and Merutunga
(B) Bilhana and Mammata
(C) Jonaraja and Merutunga
(D) Jonaraja and Srivara
19. Saundarananda was the composi-tion of [MPPCS (Pre) 1991]
(A) Asvaghosa (B) Banabhatta
(C) Bhavbhuti (D) Bhaas
20. ‘Nagananda’, ‘Ratnavali’ and ‘Priyadarshika’ was written by [RAS/RTS (Pre) 1999]
(A) Bana Bhatta
(B) Vishakha Datta
(C) Vatsyayan
(D) Harshavardhana
21. Among the four works mentioned below which one is encyclopedic in nature? [IAS (Pre) 1993]
(A) Amarakosha
(B) Siddhantasiromani
(C) Brihat Samhita
(D) Ashtangahidayam
22. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched? [UPPCS (Pre) 2012]
(A) Karpurmanjari – Harsha
(B) Malavikagnimitra – Kalidasa
(C) Mudrarakshasa – Vishakhadatta
(D) Saundarananda – Asvaghosha
23. Who wrote ‘Shakuntalam’? [MPPCS (Pre) 2000]
(A) Bana Bhatt (B) Ved Vyas
(C) Kalidasa (D) Bhavabhuti
24. Which of the following is not a literary masterpiece of Kalidasa? [Chhattisgarh PCS (Pre) 2005]
(A) Mrichchhakatikam
(B) Meghduta
(C) Ritu Sanghar
(D) Vikramorvasiyam
25. The protagonist of the Play ‘Malvikagnimitra’ written by Kalidasa is [UPPCS (Pre) 1998]
(A) Pushyamitra Shunga
(B) Gautamiputra Satakarni
(C) Agnimitra
(D) Chandragupta-II
26. Which one of the following books of ancient India has the love story of the son of the founder of Sunga dynasty? [IAS (Pre) 2016]
(A) Swapnavasavadatta
(B) Malavikagnimitra
(C) Meghadoota
(D) Ratnavali
27. The author of ‘Swapnavasavadatta’ is [43rd BPSC (Pre) 1999]
(A) Kalidasa (B) Bhasa
(C) Bhavabhuti (D) Rajshekhara
28. Who is the author of ‘Geet Govind’? [MPPCS (Pre) 1997 Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]
(A) Jayadeva (B) Surdas
(C) Kesav (D) Mira
29. Whose court was embellished by ‘Jaydev’ composer of Geet Govind? [UPPCS (Pre) 1999]
(A) Dharmapala
(B) Devpala
(C) Vijayasen
(D) Lakshmana Sen
30. Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits. This is stated in which of the following book? [UPPCS (Pre) 1992]
(A) Astadhyayi (B) Mahabhasya
(C) Geeta (D) Mahabharata
31. In which epic it was told ‘what is here is also found elsewhere, but if not here is found nowhere else’? [UPPCS (Pre) 1992]
(A) Ramayana (B) Mahabharata
(C) Geeta (D) Rajtarangini
32. Which ancient Indian book has been translated into 15 (fifteen) Indian and 40 (forty) foreign languages? [Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2010 RAS/RTS (Pre) 1992]
(A) Hitopadesha
(B) Panchatantra
(C) Katha Saritsagar
(D) Shakuntala
33. ‘Panchatantra’ was originally written by [MPPCS (Pre) 2013]
(A) Kalidasa
(B) Vishnu Sharma
(C) Tulsidas
(D) Raidas
34. Who of the following is especially known for his contribution in the field of Algebra? [UPPCS (Pre) 2002 UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2002]
(A) Aryabhatta (B) Brahmagupta
(C) Bhaskar (D) Lall
Answer Sheet:-
18. (D)
19. (A)
20. (D)
21. (C)
22. (A)
23. (C)
24. (A)
25. (C)
26. (B)
27. (B)
28. (A)
29. (D)
30. (C)
31. (B)
32. (B)
33. (B)
34. (C)