UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, INDIAN CULTURE, June-2019

(a) One salient exception to the visual art of the Maurya period is Didarganj Yakshi
(b) In the visual art of Maurya period absence of a human figure, especially that of a ruler, is conspicious
(c) The Achaeminid pillars were not monolithic
(d) The Mauryan pillars were fluted, whereas the Achaeminid columns were plain
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(a) Potential of archaeology as a window into the ancient past
(b) Important role of interpretation in archaeology
(c) The debates are not unoften informed by ideology
(d) archaeology is not capable of generating many meanings simultaneously Select the correct answer from the code given below:

(a) It is one of the early urban centres in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.
(b) It was not the political centre of any mahajanapada.
(c) It prominently figures in Mahabharata.
(d) Excavations revealed that the city experienced flooding.
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According to Hiuen Tsang, Nalanda was supported by the revenues of an enormous estate of one hundred villages, and by the alms of many patrons including the great Harsha himself; it provided free training for no less than 10000 students, who had a large staff of servants to wait on them. The remains of Nalanda, however, belie Hiuen Tsang. The monastery consisted of a very large complex of buildings, but it could hardly have accommodated a thousand monks in anything like the comfort described by the Chinese traveller.

Which of the following is NOT correct about Buddhist monasteries?