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Vemulawada Chalukyas & Mudigonda Chalukyas MCQs

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  1. Question 01

    The Kollipara copper plates record Arikesari I’s grant to the Shaiva teacher Mugdha-Shivacharya. The grant was made for

    1. Option A: the maintenance of a Jain basadi
    2. Option B: digging an irrigation tank
    3. Option C: the upkeep of a temple of Aditya
    4. Option D: imparting education (vidya-dana)
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: D. imparting education (vidya-dana)

    **Why D is correct.** The plates describe the grant as a gift for **imparting education (vidya-dana)** through the Shaiva teacher. **Why A is incorrect.** The donee is a **Shaiva** teacher; Jain grants belong to the later **Parbhani** record. **Why B is incorrect.** The charter is not an irrigation endowment. **Why C is incorrect.** No temple of **Aditya** is involved in the Kollipara charter.

  2. Question 02

    Malliya Rechana, author of the earliest Telugu prosody, belonged to which religious tradition?

    1. Option A: Shaivism
    2. Option B: Buddhism
    3. Option C: Vaishnavism
    4. Option D: Jainism
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: D. Jainism

    **Why D is correct.** **Malliya Rechana** was a **Jain**, like many poets of Vemulawada, then a Jain literary hub. **Why A is incorrect.** Shaiva patronage is seen in the Kollipara and Baddegeswara records, not in his tradition. **Why B is incorrect.** **Buddhism** had faded from the region by this period. **Why C is incorrect.** No Vaishnava link is recorded for him.

  3. Question 03

    Roughly between which centuries CE did the Mudigonda Chalukyas rule the Koravi region?

    1. Option A: 9th to 13th centuries
    2. Option B: 6th to 8th centuries
    3. Option C: 14th to 16th centuries
    4. Option D: 4th to 6th centuries
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A. 9th to 13th centuries

    **Why A is correct.** The line began around **A.D. 850** and survived until the **Kakatiya** conquest in the early **13th century**. **Why B is incorrect.** The **6th-8th centuries** are the age of the Badami Chalukyas. **Why C is incorrect.** The **14th-16th centuries** belong to the Reddi and Vijayanagara age. **Why D is incorrect.** The **4th-6th centuries** are earlier Ikshvaku-Vishnukundin-Gupta times.

  4. Question 04

    Consider the following statements about the Koravi inscription: 1. It throws light on the administration and judicial procedure of the Mudigonda Chalukyas. 2. It records that the Koravi region was acquired by the Mudigonda family only after the Kakatiya conquest. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

    1. Option A: 1 only
    2. Option B: 2 only
    3. Option C: Both 1 and 2
    4. Option D: Neither 1 nor 2
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A. 1 only

    **Statement 1 is correct.** The record sheds light on **administration and judicial procedure** under the Mudigondas. **Statement 2 is incorrect.** Koravi was the **hereditary estate** of the Mudigonda family; the Kakatiyas came much later and **ended** the dynasty.

  5. Question 05

    Consider the following pairs: 1. Vikramarjuna Vijayam — Pampa 2. Yashastilaka champu — Somadeva Suri 3. Kavijanasrayam — Malliya Rechana 4. Nitivakyamrita — Pampa Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

    1. Option A: 1 and 2 only
    2. Option B: 1, 2 and 3 only
    3. Option C: 1, 3 and 4 only
    4. Option D: 2, 3 and 4 only
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B. 1, 2 and 3 only

    **Pair 1 is correctly matched.** **Vikramarjuna Vijayam** is the work of **Pampa**. **Pair 2 is correctly matched.** **Yashastilaka champu** is the work of **Somadeva Suri**. **Pair 3 is correctly matched.** **Kavijanasrayam** is the work of **Malliya Rechana**. **Pair 4 is not correctly matched.** **Nitivakyamrita** is a treatise on polity by **Somadeva Suri**, not by Pampa.

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