2018 · Q61
Statement IFor early societies, historians retrieve information about elite families mostly from inscriptions.
Statement IISatavahana inscriptions generally end with the term Putra, a Prakrit word meaning 'son'.
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- ABoth true and II explains I
- BBoth true but II does not explain I
- CI true but II false
- DI false but II true
Explanation
Statement I is true: NCERT notes that historians reconstruct elite family trees — marriages, successions, lineages — chiefly from inscriptions, since ordinary people's kinship is rarely recorded. Statement II is false on two counts: 'putra' is the Sanskrit word for son (the Prakrit form in Satavahana metronymics like Gotami-puta is 'puta'), and such metronymics occur within royal names inside the inscription rather than as a terminal word of it. Hence statement I is true but statement II is false.