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4. The most important Shaka ruler was ____________ .
5. Charak and Sushruta lived during the rule of ____________ .
6. Fa-Hien was a famous tourist from ____________ .

D. Match the following :
1. Indo-Greeks u u The Buddha in his previous births.
2. Gandhara School of Art u u The art and sculpture practised in India.
3. Unani system of medicine u u The Greek generals who lived in Central Asia.
4. Shakas u u The art and sculpture influenced by the Greek style.
5. Mathura School of Art u u The system of medicine practised by the Greeks.
6. Bodhisattvas u u A nomadic tribe of Central Asia.

E. Answer the questions in one word/phrase :
1. Who is known as Milind in Buddhist texts?
2. Whom did the Greeks worship?
3. What is the Greek system of medicine known as?
4. Who was the greatest Kushana king?
5. Which religion did Kanishka embrace?
6. What was destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 AD?

F. Answer the questions in brief :
1. How did the invasions from the foreigners start in the post-Mauryan period?
2. Who were the Indo-Greeks?
3. How is the Buddha depicted in the Gandhara School of Art?
4. What are the contributions of the Shakas to India?
5. How large was Kanishka’s empire?
6. How extensive was the spread of Buddhism in Central Asia?

G. Answer the questions in detail :
1. How was Kanishka a great warrior as well as a great patron of art and sculpture?
2. What is the difference between the Gandhara and the Mathura Schools of Art?
3. In what aspects of life can we see the influence of Indo-Greeks?
4. Write about the Shakas and Pahlavas.
5. Who was the most important as well as the greatest ruler of Kushanas dynasty? Why?

1. Central Asian contacts brought a fresh wave in the art of sculpture, do you agree with this. How?
2. How can you say that Kanishka was a great patron of art and science?

Bhakti
Bhakti is a path of belief in which a person chooses a deity he or she has faith in. The devotion of his or
her chosen deity is termed as Bhakti. It considered that if a devotee worships the chosen deity with a
pure heart, the deity will appear in the form in which he or she may desire. Anyone irrespective of his or
her caste could follow the path of Bhakti. An important feature of later Hinduism was the worship of
Shiva, Vishnu and the goddess Durga through Bhakti or devotion. The idea of Bhakti is found in the
Bhagvad Gita, a sacred book of the Hindus. Bhakti emphasised devotion and individual worship of a
chosen deity. It did not believe in caste, class or gender differences. The ideas of the Bhakti movement
later became the central feature of Hinduism.
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