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ANCIENT HISTORY: PYQs Terms

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Year Terms
2022 Fanam: a small gold or silver coin formerly in widespread use in
southern India.
2021 Mitakshara: School of inheritance/ System of family laws (Similarly,
Dayabhaga: System of family laws)
In the Mitakshara system, the sons can claim right to the property
during the lifetime of the father, whereas in the Dayabhaga system,
it is only after the death of the father that the sons can claim right to
the property.
2020 Paramitas: Perfections whose attainment led to the Bodhisattva
path.
Upasaka: Lay follower of Buddhism.
Shramana: Shramanas were Buddhist ascetics who lived a severe
and self-denying lifestyle in order to achieve spiritual emancipation.
Parivrajaka: Renunciant and Wanderer.
Kulyavapa and Dronavapa: Units for measurement of land.
2018 Maitreya: Future Buddha, yet to come to save the world.
Sthanakvasi: Associated with Jainism, those who do not have their
religious activities in temples but carry on their religious duties in
places known as Sthanakas
2016 Maagadha: Profession of the memorizing of chronicles, dynastic
histories and Epictales.
2015 Tolkappiyam: The book on Tamil Grammar.
2013 Nirvana: The extinction of the flame of desire.
Viharas: Vihara is the dwelling place of the monks.
Chaityas: Chaitya is a place of worship.
2012 Guilds (Shreni): Every guild was registered with the central authority
of the State and the king was the chief administrative authority on
them. The wages, rules of work, standards and prices were fixed by
the guild. The guild had judicial powers over its own members.
Bhumisparsha Mudra: Buddha’s calling of the Earth to witness his
purity and chastity despite the temptations of Mara.
2011 Rita: Rita was the fundamental moral law governing the functioning
of the universe and all it contained.
2011 Dharma: Dharma was a conception of obligations and of the
discharge of one’s duties to oneself and to others.

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