Match List - I with List - II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Correct Match:

Explanation:

The Satavahana rulers names were derived from their mothers' because they followed a practice called matronymy. Raja Gotami-puta Siri-Satakan, Raja Vasithi-puta (sami-) Siri-Pulumayi, Raja Gotami-puta sami-Siri-Yana-Satakani, Raja Madhari-puta svami-Sakasena etc. These are the names of several generations of Satavahana rulers, recovered from inscriptions. Note the uniform title 'Raja'. Also note the following word, which ends with the term puta, a Prakrit word meaning “son”. The term Gotami-puta means “son of Gotami”.

One of the most challenging episodes in the Mahabharata is Draupadi’s marriage with the Pandavas, an instance of polyandry that is central to the narrative.

According to the Manusmriti, the paternal estate was to be divided equally amongst sons after the death of the parents, with a special share for the eldest. Women could not claim a share of these resources. However, women were allowed to retain the gifts they received on the occasion of their marriage as stridhana (literally, a woman’s wealth). This could be inherited by their children, without the husband having any claim on it. At the same time, the Manusmriti warned women against hoarding family property, or even their own valuables, without the husband’s permission. We have read about wealthy women such as the Vakataka queen Prabhavati Gupta. However, cumulative evidence – both epigraphic and textual – suggests that while upper-class women may have had access to resources, land, cattle and money were generally controlled by men. In other words, social differences between men and women were sharpened because of the differences in access to resources.

Story, which is part of the Matanga Jataka: Once, the Bodhisatta was born outside the city of Banaras as a chandala’s son and named Matanga. One day, when he had gone to the city on some work, he encountered Dittha Mangalika, the daughter of a merchant. When she saw him, she exclaimed “I have seen something inauspicious” and washed her eyes. The angry hangers-on then beat him up. In protest, he went and lay down at the door of her father’s house. On the seventh day they brought out the girl and gave her to him. She carried the starving Matanga back to the chandala settlement. Once he returned home, he decided to renounce the world. After attaining spiritual powers, he returned to Banaras and married her. A son named Mandavya Kumara was born to them. He learnt the three Vedas as he grew up and began to provide food to 16,000 Brahmanas every day.