Tripitakas are sacred books of
Answer: A
They are Buddhist.
The Tipitaka, or three baskets, is the Pali canon: the Vinaya Pitaka of monastic rule, the Sutta Pitaka of discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of doctrinal analysis. It was written down in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE.
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How many Mandalas Rig Veda contains ?
Answer: B
It contains ten mandalas.
The ten books hold 1,028 hymns and some 10,600 verses. Books two to seven are the family books and the oldest; the first and tenth are the latest, and the tenth contains the Purusha Sukta and the Nasadiya hymn of creation.
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The system of Dual Government during the latter half of the 18th century AD is associated with the name of
Answer: A
It is associated with Clive.
After the grant of the diwani in 1765 the Company held the revenues of Bengal while the Nawab retained the nizamat - power without responsibility on one side, responsibility without power on the other. Warren Hastings ended the arrangement in 1772.
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The ‘Saptanga Theory of State’ (Theory of Seven Limbs of the State) was put forward by :
Answer: A
It was Kautilya, in the Arthashastra.
The saptanga names seven limbs of the state - swami the ruler, amatya the ministers, janapada the territory and people, durga the fort, kosha the treasury, danda the army and mitra the ally - each dependent on the rest, so that weakness in one weakens the whole.
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Ustad Mansur was a famous painter in the region of
Answer: D
He painted under Jahangir.
Ustad Mansur held the title Nadir-ul-Asr, wonder of the age, and specialised in natural history - the dodo, the Siberian crane, the Bengal florican and the flowers of Kashmir - painted with a precision that matched the emperor's own interest in observation.
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Which Vedic Texts gives a systematic exposition of the ‘theory of rebirth’ for the first time?
Answer: A
It is the Chhandogya Upanishad.
Its fifth chapter gives the panchagni vidya, the doctrine of the five fires, tracing the soul's passage after death and its return through rain, plant, food and seed - the first systematic statement of rebirth, together with the two paths of devayana and pitriyana.
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The Vedic deity Indra was the god of
Answer: C
He was the god of rain and thunder.
Indra is the foremost deity of the Rigveda, with about 250 hymns to his name. He wields the vajra, slays Vritra and releases the waters - the myth read both as thunderstorm and as the breaking of dams.
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Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India ?
Answer: D
It was Winston Churchill.
Stafford Cripps came to India in March 1942 with an offer of dominion status after the war and the right of provinces to stay out of the union. Gandhi called it a post-dated cheque, and the Congress rejected it.
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Todar Mal was associated with
Answer: C
He was associated with finance.
Raja Todar Mal was Akbar's revenue minister and framed the zabti or bandobast system: land measured with the bamboo jarib, classified by continuity of cultivation, and assessed on a ten-year average of prices and yields.
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The Vijayanagara king who employed skilled archers of the Turkish clan and raised the fighting capacity of his bowmen was
Answer: B
It was Deva Raya I.
He took Turkish archers into his service and had his own bowmen trained by them, and also built the dam on the Tungabhadra and the aqueduct that carried water to the capital.
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