Practicing Success
Which of the following provincial center literally means the Golden Mountain? |
Taxila Tosali Suvarnagiri Ujjayini |
Suvarnagiri |
There were five major political centres in the empire – the capital Pataliputra and the provincial centres of Taxila, Ujjayini, Tosali and Suvarnagiri, all mentioned in Asokan inscriptions. These centres were carefully chosen, both Taxila and Ujjayini being situated on important long-distance trade routes, while Suvarnagiri (literally, the golden mountain) was possibly important for tapping the gold mines of Karnataka. |