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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: The Sudarshana (beautiful) Lake in Gujarat: The Sudarshana lake was an artuficial reservoir. We know about it from a rock inscription ( second century CE) in Sanskrit, composed to record the achievements of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman. The inscription mentions that the lake, with embankments and water channels, was built by a local governor during the rule of the Mauryas. However, a terrible storm broke the embankments and water gushed out of the lake. Rudradaman, who was then ruling in the area, claimed to have got the lake repaired using his own resources, without imposing any tax on his subjectsAnother inscription on the same rock (c. fifth cenrury) mentions how one of the rulers of the Gupta dynasty gat the lake repaired once again.Explain Rudradaman duting the 2d century CE. |
Answer» SOLUTION : (i) A terrible STROM broke the EMBANKMENTS and water gushed out of the lake (ii) RUDRADAMAN claimed to have got the lake repaired. |
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