Who among the following is also venerated as “Second Buddha”?
Answer: A
Padmasambhava is venerated as the Second Buddha.
Also called Guru Rinpoche, he brought Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century and founded the Nyingma school. Tibetans regard him as the second Buddha of this age.
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Sangai Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?
Answer: B
It is celebrated in Manipur.
The Sangai Festival is named after the brow-antlered deer of the floating meadows of Loktak lake, found nowhere else in the world, and runs for ten days each November.
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Which Veda Sanskrit literature has begun from?
Answer: D
It begins with the Rigveda.
The Rigveda, composed roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE, is the oldest surviving text in any Indo-European language, and the whole of Sanskrit literature follows from it. Its ten mandalas hold 1,028 hymns.
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Which among the following is known as the earliest example of Panchayatana style of temple?
Answer: A
It is the Dashavatara temple at Deogarh.
Built about 500 in Uttar Pradesh, it is the earliest surviving example of the panchayatana plan, in which four subsidiary shrines stand at the corners of the platform around the main sanctum.
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The temples constructed at Khajuraho are:
1. Jain temples
2. Vaishnavite Temples
3. Saivite Temples
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Answer: C
All three kinds are there.
The Chandelas built some eighty-five temples at Khajuraho between 950 and 1050, of which about twenty survive. They include Shaivite temples such as the Kandariya Mahadeva, Vaishnavite ones such as the Lakshmana, and a Jain group in the eastern cluster.
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The famous painting “Bani Thani” is from which among the following styles of Painting?
Answer: A
It belongs to the Kishangarh school.
Nihal Chand painted it about 1750 under Raja Sawant Singh, and the elongated face with the arched brow, half-closed eye and pointed chin became the signature of the school. India issued a stamp of it in 1973.
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A Fire temple is a place of worship for _____?
Answer: B
It is a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
The fire temple, or agiary, keeps a sacred fire burning perpetually as the symbol of Ahura Mazda's purity and light. Fires of the highest grade have burned continuously for centuries; the one at Udvada in Gujarat since the eighth.
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Number of classical Kathakali stories included in traditional Kathakali dance are
Answer: B
There are 101.
The traditional repertoire of Kathakali attakathas numbers 101 stories, drawn mostly from the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagavata, though only some thirty are regularly staged today.
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Who among the following preached the doctrine of “One religion, one caste and one God for mankind“?
Answer: C
It was Sri Narayana Guru.
The Kerala reformer, born into the Ezhava community, consecrated a Shiva temple at Aruvippuram in 1888 in defiance of the rule that only Brahmins might do so, and founded the SNDP Yogam. His slogan was one caste, one religion, one God for man.
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Sattriya dance is originated from which state
Answer: A
It originated in Assam.
Sattriya was created by Sankaradeva in the fifteenth century as part of the worship in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam, and was danced there by monks. It was recognised as a classical form by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2000.
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