The Maner plate and the fall of Odantapuri
Concept
The Maner plate and the fall of Odantapuri
Before Bakhtiyar Khalji entered Bihar, the Gahadavala kings were already collecting a tax called turushkadanda, a levy associated with the Turkish presence. The inscription that records this collection in Bihar was found at Maner. The same plate is also called the Maniyari copper plate. Kannauj, Munger and Banaras are the distractors. The printed find-spot is Maner.
Odantapuri, at Bihar Sharif, was a great Buddhist vihara. The printed question asks who destroyed it. The key is Bakhtiyar Khalji's attack, not the Mughals, not Tughril Beg, and not all of them together. That destruction sits in the same chapter as the sack of the neighbouring monasteries.
Exam view
- H8. (c) Maner. The Maner, or Maniyari, copper plate discusses it.
- H19. (c) the attacks of Bakhtiyar Khalji.
- H8: (c) Maner
- H19: (c) the attacks of Bakhtiyar Khalji
- Question: Question 8 (Historical miscellaneous): A record mentions collection of turushkadanda in Bihar by the Gahadavala rulers. Where was it found? Answer: (c) Maner
- Question: Question 19 (Historical miscellaneous): The Odantapuri (Bihar Sharif) mahavihara was destroyed by— Answer: (c) the attacks of Bakhtiyar Khalji
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Question 8 (Historical miscellaneous): A record mentions collection of turushkadanda in Bihar by the Gahadavala rulers. Where was it found?
Question 19 (Historical miscellaneous): The Odantapuri (Bihar Sharif) mahavihara was destroyed by—
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Question 8 (Historical miscellaneous): A record mentions collection of turushkadanda in Bihar by the Gahadavala rulers. Where was it found?
(c) ManerQuestion 19 (Historical miscellaneous): The Odantapuri (Bihar Sharif) mahavihara was destroyed by—
(c) the attacks of Bakhtiyar Khalji