Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Period MCQs

56. Who among the following rulers advised his subjects through this inscription?
“Whosoever praises his religious sect or blames other sects out of excessive devotion to his own sect, with the view of glorifying his own sect, he rather injures his own sect very severely.”
(a) Ashoka 
(b) Samudragupta
(c) Harshavardhana
(d) Krishnadeva Raya
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57. An Ashokan Edict is located in Uttarakhand at –
(a) Dev Prayag
(b) Kalsi
(c) Kedarnath
(d) Rishikesh
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58. Ashoka’s connection with Buddhism is evident from which one of the following edicts? 
(a) Major Rock Edict 13
(b) Rock Edict 6
(c) Minor Rock Edict 1
(d) Pillar Edict 4
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59. Where in Uttarakhand, was a copy of Emperor Ashoka’s Rock Edicts discovered?
(a) Nainital
(b) Pauri
(c) Tehri
(d) Kalsi (Dehradun District)
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60. The accounts of Kalinga War is known to us by the 
(a) Rock Edict-XIII
(b) Rummindei Pillar Inscription
(c) Accounts of Hiuen Tsang
(d) Minor Rock Edict-I
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