{"id":149344,"date":"2023-07-04T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=149344"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T10:07:42","slug":"the-prakrit-text-gathasaptasati-is-attributed-to-the-satavahana-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-prakrit-text-gathasaptasati-is-attributed-to-the-satavahana-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prakrit text \u201cGathasaptasati\u201d is attributed to the Satavahana king"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. The Prakrit text \u201cGathasaptasati\u201d is attributed to the Satavahana king<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;(a) Vasishtiputra Pulumavi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Hala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Gautamiputra Satkarni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Amaru<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (b) Hala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: The Prakrit text &#8220;Gathasaptasati&#8221; is attributed to the Satavahana king Hala. Hala was a ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which was a prominent dynasty in ancient South India from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. &#8220;Gathasaptasati,&#8221; also known as &#8220;Saptasati,&#8221; is a collection of poems written in Maharashtri Prakrit, a language prevalent during that time. The text consists of 700 verses (saptashati), hence its name. These verses depict various aspects of life, including love, nature, and social themes. Hala&#8217;s authorship of the &#8220;Gathasaptasati&#8221; is attributed based on the internal evidence found in the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. The Prakrit text \u201cGathasaptasati\u201d is attributed to the Satavahana king &nbsp;(a) Vasishtiputra Pulumavi (b) Hala (c) Gautamiputra Satkarni (d) Amaru Ans: (b) Hala Explanation: The Prakrit text &#8220;Gathasaptasati&#8221; is attributed to the Satavahana king Hala. Hala was a ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which was a prominent dynasty in ancient South India from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":149348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-149344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149349,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344\/revisions\/149349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149344"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=149344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}