Indian History Questions

Vardhamana Mahavira, also known as Mahavira, was the twenty-fourth tirthankara who revived Jainism.

Both Mahavira and Gauthama Buddha are contemporary to each other as they propound their religions Jainism and Buddhism in India.

Golden Revolution in India refers to increase in the production of Honey and other Horticulture. The period between 1991 to 2003 is referred to as Golden Revolution Period.

According to al-Biruni, the sufi theories of the soul were similar to those in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Like the Yoga Sutra, sufi works also stated that ‘the bodies are the snares of the souls for the purpose of acquiring recompense’. Al-Biruni also identifies the sufi doctrine of divine love as self-annihilation with parallel passages from the Bhagavad Gita. There was also much exchange of ideas between the Sufis and Indian yogis. In fact the hatha-yoga treatise Amrita Kunda was translated into Arabic and Persian, So C is right.

Hujwiri was known as Datta Ganj Baksh. Hujwiri comments that before he settled in Lahore some sufis believed in theories that he calls brahmanical. According to Hujwiri they wrongly believed that ‘annihilation (fand’) signifies loss of essence and destruction of the personality, and that subsistence (baqa) indicates the subsistence of God in man.

Raja Todar Mal was the Finance Minister of the Mughal empire during Akbar's reign.