With reference to the Gupta period, consider the following statements :
(i) The Gupta period is considered as the “Golden Age of India”
(ii) Kalidasa was a court poet of samudragupta.
(iii) The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli belongs to the Gupta era.
(iv) Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of Chandragupta I.
Select the correct statements using the codes given below.
(A) Onlv (i) and (ii)
(B) only (ii)’ (iii) and (iv)
(c) onlv (i)’ (iii) and (iv)
(D) Only (i) and (iii)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Answer and Explanation: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With reference to the Gupta period, consider the following statements :(i) The Gupta period is considered as the “Golden Age of India”(ii) Kalidasa was a court poet of samudragupta.(iii) The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli belongs to the Gupta era.(iv) Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of Chandragupta I.Select the correct statements using the codes given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5245],"tags":[5375],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-174216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apsc","tag-apsc-gs-q1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174216","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174218,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174216\/revisions\/174218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174216"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=174216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Answer: Option (D)
1. The Gupta period (roughly 320 CE to 550 CE)<\/mark>\u00a0is widely considered the Golden Age of India.
2. Kalidasa was not a court poet of Samudragupta.\u00a0He was a court poet of\u00a0Chandragupta II,\u00a0also known as\u00a0Vikramaditya
3. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli is generally attributed to the Gupta era, specifically to the reign of Chandragupta II
4. Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of Chandragupta II, not Chandragupta I<\/p>\n\n\n\n