Consider the following pairs:
| King | Dynasty | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nannuka | Chandela |
| 2. | Jayashakti | Paramara |
| 3. | Nagabhata II | Gurjara-Pratihara |
| 4. | Bhoja | Rashtrakuta |
How many pairs given above are correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (b) Only two pairs
Only pairs 1 and 3 are correct: Nannuka began the Chandela line and Nagabhata II was a Gurjara-Pratihara king. Jayashakti was another Chandela ruler, not a Paramara, and the famous Bhoja was a Pratihara king, not a Rashtrakuta.
- ✓ 1. Nannuka is the first ruler in the standard list of Chandela kings (early 9th century), the dynasty of Jejakabhukti (Bundelkhand) that built the Khajuraho temples.
- ✗ 2. Jayashakti, with his brother Vijayashakti, appears in the same Chandela list, after Vakpati. He is not a Paramara.
- ✓ 3. Nagabhata II was a Gurjara-Pratihara king who captured Kannauj in the early 9th century, before Bhoja made the Pratiharas the strongest power of north India.
- ✗ 4. Bhoja is the celebrated Pratihara king in NCERT, not a Rashtrakuta. The Rashtrakutas of the Deccan began with Dantidurga in the mid-8th century.
Remember · Chandela: Nannuka, Vakpati, Jayashakti. Gurjara-Pratihara: Nagabhata I and II, Bhoja. Rashtrakuta: Dantidurga.
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Sources
- Britannica — Chandela (list of Chandela rulers, citing Madhya Pradesh Tourism) ↗ · reference work “835–845 ce Nanuka 845–865 ce Vakpati 865–885 ce Jayashakti and Vijayashakti 885–905 ce Rahila 905–925 ce Shri Harshadev”
- UGC e-content (cec.nic.in): Chandella Period ↗ “who ruled at Jejakabhukti or modern Bundelkhand, the region where Khajuraho is located, from 831 to 1308 A.D.”
- District Ballia (Government of Uttar Pradesh) — History ↗ “In the first of the ninth century, probably soon after the capture of Kannauj by Naghbhatta II, it came under the sway of the rising power of the Gujrat Pratiharas of whom Bhoja was the strongest ruler in northern India.”
- NCERT Class 7 · Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 2), Chapter 3 “In the 9th century, the celebrated Pratihara ruler, King Bhoja, a devotee of Vishnu, built an empire stretching from Punjab and Kathiawar (or Saurashtra) in the west to Kannauj in the east”
- NCERT Class 7 · Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 2), Chapter 3 “In the mid-8th century, Dantidurga became the first independent Rashtrakuta ruler when he overthrew the Chalukyas in the Deccan”
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