Put following historical developments in chronological order from earliest to last?
(A) Earliest temples
(B) First stupas
(C) Upanishads
(D) Later Vedic Traditions
Choose correct answer from options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (C), (B), (A)
The Later Vedic tradition belongs to about 1000–600 BCE (D), and the Upanishads were composed towards the end of that age, about 800–500 BCE (C).
The first stupas were raised in the time of Ashoka, in the third century BCE (B), and the earliest surviving temples came much later, around the fourth and fifth centuries CE (A).