Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Medieval History

Consider the following features of an educational institution:

  • It was known as a Chatuspathi or Tol in Bihar and Bengal.
  • Important centres associated with it included Kasi, Tirhut, Nadia and Utkala.
  • It provided higher learning in the Sanskrit tradition.

Which one of the following is being described?

  1. An elementary pathshala
  2. A Persian and Arabic madrasah
  3. A centre of higher Sanskrit education
  4. A guild for training shipbuilders
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