Who among the following got the Mahabharata translated into Persian and named it as ‘Razmnameh’ ?
Answer: A
It was Akbar.
He had the Mahabharata translated into Persian at his translation bureau, the Maktab Khana, as the Razmnama, the book of war. Badauni, who worked on it under protest, records his distaste for the task.
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Which among the following is incorrectly matched?
Answer: B
The wrong pair is Mahamastakabhisheka – Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The anointing of the Gomateshwara statue takes place only at Shravanabelagola in Karnataka, once every twelve years. The other three pairs are correct.
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To which of the following parvas of Mahabharata, Bhagvatgita Belongs?
Answer: B
It belongs to the Bhishma Parva.
The Bhagavad Gita occupies chapters 23 to 40 of the sixth book of the Mahabharata, spoken between the armies before the fighting begins, while Bhishma commands the Kaurava host.
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Chakan Gaan-Ngai, a post-harvest festival is celebrated in __:
Answer: A
It is celebrated in Manipur.
Chakan Gaan-Ngai is the post-harvest festival of the Zeliangrong people, held in the Manipuri month of Wakching - December or January - with the sacred fire kindled by friction, dances and the blessing of the new crop.
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Sabarimala in kerala is a famous place devoted to ________?
Answer: B
It is devoted to Ayyappan.
The hill shrine in Pathanamthitta district is reached on foot through forest after a forty-one day austerity, and draws tens of millions of pilgrims in the Mandala season, one of the largest annual gatherings in the world.
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Darbhanga Castle is located at?
Answer: B
It is in Uttar Pradesh.
Darbhanga Castle stands on the Ghats at Varanasi, built in the early twentieth century by the Maharaja of Darbhanga. It has been restored as the Brijrama Palace hotel.
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A devotional saint and a cobbler by profession was ___?
Answer: C
It was Ravidas.
The fifteenth-century saint of Varanasi was a cobbler by trade, and his verses - forty of which are in the Guru Granth Sahib - reject caste altogether. Mirabai is traditionally counted among his disciples.
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Rabindranath Tagore's 'Jana Gana Mana' has been adopted as India's National Anthem. How many stanzas of the said song were adopted?
Answer: A
Only the first stanza.
The Constituent Assembly adopted the first of the five stanzas of Tagore's Bengali hymn on 24 January 1950. The full rendering takes 52 seconds; a short version of the first and last lines takes about 20.
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Which of the following features of Indian temples resembles pylons of the Egyptian temples?
Answer: C
It is the gopura.
The gopuram is the great gateway tower of a south Indian temple, tapering as it rises, set in the enclosure wall rather than over the sanctum - the same role, and much the same profile, as the pylon of an Egyptian temple.
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Which among the following current states of India was known as Pragjyotisha in ancient time?
Answer: B
It was Assam.
Pragjyotisha, meaning the city of eastern light, was the ancient name of the kingdom in the Brahmaputra valley, with its capital at Pragjyotishpura, the modern Guwahati. It appears in the Mahabharata as the realm of Bhagadatta.
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