The doctrine of ‘Vyuhavada’ is associated with which Sects (or) cults of India?
Answer: B
It belongs to Vaishnavism.
Vyuhavada is the Pancharatra doctrine of the four emanations of Vasudeva - Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha - through which the supreme deity becomes accessible for worship. The Heliodorus pillar at Besnagar attests the tradition by the second century BCE.
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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 evidences of ‘pit-dwelling’ have been discovered from which ancient Indian sites?
Answer: B
They are from Burzahom and Gufkral.
Both are Neolithic sites in Kashmir where dwellings were dug into the loess, wide at the base and narrow at the top, reached by steps and with hearths inside - an answer to the cold. Burzahom also yielded dog burials with their masters.
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The first astronomical observatory of Harappan Civilization has been found at which ancient Indian sites?
Answer: D
It has been found at Dholavira.
The excavators identified a structure at Dholavira, in the Rann of Kutch, as an observatory, its alignments answering to the solstices and equinoxes. The site is also known for its water reservoirs and its large signboard of Indus characters.
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Manu, Yajnavalkya , Narada and Brihaspati were?
Answer: A
They were law-givers of ancient India.
Manu, Yajnavalkya, Narada and Brihaspati give their names to the principal Dharmashastras, composed between about 200 BCE and 600 CE. The Yajnavalkya Smriti with Vijnaneshvara's Mitakshara commentary became the basis of Hindu law in most of India.
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Select the statement which is incorrect regarding Kalidasa:
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that he was one of the nine gems in the court of Chandragupta I.
The navaratna tradition places Kalidasa at the court of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, who ruled about 375 to 415, not Chandragupta I. The other three statements are correct.
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Which of the following statements about the Gupta Empire under Samudragupta is incorrect?
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that Samudragupta was the first Gupta ruler to exercise direct administrative control over western and southern India.
The Allahabad pillar itself says he defeated the twelve southern kings and then restored them - grahana-moksha-anugraha - taking tribute, not territory. Western India came under direct Gupta rule only when Chandragupta II destroyed the Saka Kshatrapas.
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Which of these deities were associated with the Rig Vedic period?
1. Purandara
2. Varuna
3. Savitri
4. Usha
Choose the correct option:
Answer: D
All four belong to the Rigvedic period.
Purandara, the breaker of forts, is an epithet of Indra; Varuna is the guardian of rita and the cosmic order; Savitri is the solar deity of the Gayatri mantra; and Ushas, the dawn, has some twenty hymns of her own.
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