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A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. Pulakeshin II was the best known ____________ ruler.

(a) Chalukya (b) Vardhan (c) Gupta
2. The capital of Pallavas was ____________ .
(a) Kanchipuram (b) Kalinga (c) Magadha
3. The Chalukya dynasty was established by ____________ .
(a) Pulakeshin I (b) Pulakeshin II (c) both of them
4. ____________ defeated and killed Pulakeshin II.
(a) Mahendravarman (b) Narsimhavarman (c) none of these
5. Pulakeshin II exchanged ambassadors with King Khusrau of ____________ .

(a) Iran (b) Iraq (c) Kanchipuram
6. Hiuen-Tsang visited the court of ____________ .
(a) Pulakeshin I (b) Pulakeshin II (c) Harshavardhana
7. Narsimhavarman founded the town of ____________ .
(a) Kanchipuram (b) Mahabalipuram (c) Mahasabha
8. The devotees of Vishnu are called ____________ .
(a) Alvars (b) Nayannars (c) none of these

B. Match the following :
1. Nayannars u u The Indian name for the followers of Zoroaster.
2. Shikhara u u The place of worship of the Parsees.
3. Ratha temple u u A country dependent on and controlled by another.
4. Vassal u u The followers of Shiva.
5. Fire temple u u The tall tower over the place of deity in a temple.

6. Parsees u u A temple cut out of a single rock and shaped like a chariot.
C. Fill in the blanks with help from the box :
Narsimhavarman, Harshavardhana, Mahendravarman, Kanchi, shikhara, fire temple, Nayannars
1. Pulakeshin II was a contemporary of ____________ , the famous ruler in the north.
2. Pulakeshin II was defeated and killed by ____________ , the son of ____________ .

3. The Parsees worship in a ____________ .
4. The capital of the Pallavas was located at ____________ .
5. The tall tower over a temple is called ____________ .
6. The followers of Shiva are called ____________ .

D. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false :
1. The devotees of Vishnu are called Nayannars.
2. The village council called Mahasabha.
3. Vikramaditya I defeated the Pallavas in 654 AD.
4. Mahendravarman was a Jain in the beginning.

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