Question

Which of the following pair(s) are/is correctly matched? 

1. Charasada — Pushkalavati 

2. Sirkap — Takshila 

3. Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri 

4. Ter — Tamralipti Choose the correct answer from the codes given below: 

Codes: 

(a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4

Answer 1

(b) The correctly matched pairs are: 

Charasadda    — Pushkalavati 

Sirkap              — Takshila 

Nagarjunakonda — Vijaypuri

Pushkalavati (modern-day Charasadda) is an ancient site situated in Peshawar valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly NWFP) of Pakistan. It is located on the banks of Swat river, near its junction with Kabul river. Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Takshila, Punjab, Pakistan.The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded India around 180 BCE. A city flourished around 1,800 years ago at Nagarjunakonda, the Hill of Nagarjuna. A great religious and educational centre of Brahmanism and Buddhism, one of the names it had then was Vijayapuri, after kingVijaya Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty. Thereafter a capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty (225 – 325 CE), it fell into terminal decline after the demise of the last Ikshvaku king. A teacher, S Venkataramayya, discovered the ruins of the ancient city in 1926.