Santhara is a religious ritual related to ___?
Answer: A
It is a Jain ritual.
Santhara, or sallekhana, is the voluntary fast to death undertaken when a Jain judges that the body can no longer serve religious life. The Rajasthan High Court held it illegal in 2015, and the Supreme Court stayed that order.
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Adya Dhara niradhara, niralamba Saraswati, thus lamented a poet at the demise of which among the following Kings?
Answer: D
It was Bhoja Paramara.
The verse - today the earth is without support, and learning without a patron - was said to have been uttered at the death of the eleventh-century king of Dhara, himself a scholar and the author of works on poetics, architecture and astronomy.
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Among the five monolithic rathas of Pallavas at Mahabalipuram, the largest is ___?
Answer: C
It is the Dharmaraja Ratha.
The largest and tallest of the five monolithic rathas at Mahabalipuram, cut from a single outcrop of granite in the seventh century, it is three storeys high and is named after Yudhishthira.
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Baisakhi commemorates which event in Sikh history?
Answer: B
It commemorates the founding of the Khalsa.
Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi in 1699, initiating the five beloved ones and then being initiated by them in turn. The festival is also the spring harvest festival of Punjab.
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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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The leaning temple of Huma is dedicated to which Hindu god?
Answer: A
It is dedicated to Shiva.
The Leaning Temple of Huma stands on the bank of the Mahanadi in Sambalpur district of Odisha, and the whole structure inclines to one side. No settled explanation for the tilt has been established.
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Who among the following started Ganapati Festival in 1893 and thereby gave it national character?
Answer: C
It was Lokmanya Tilak.
He turned the household worship of Ganesh into a ten-day public festival at Pune in 1893, using the processions and gatherings to build national feeling at a time when political meetings were restricted.
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Which of the following was the birth place of Guru Nanak ?
Answer: C
He was born at Nankana Sahib.
The town, then called Rai Bhoi di Talwandi, is about 75 km from Lahore in present-day Pakistan, and was renamed after the Guru. Gurdwara Janam Asthan marks the site of his birth in 1469.
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Famous sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya settled in Delhi during the times of __:
Answer: A
He settled there under Ghiyasuddin Balban.
Nizamuddin Auliya lived from about 1238 to 1325 - the age of the Delhi Sultanate, not the Mughals. He came to Delhi as a young man in Balban's reign, and by his death had seen seven sultans come and go, refusing to attend the court of any of them.
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Which among the following Kings built the Kailashnath Temple of Ellora ?
Answer: A
It was Krishna I.
The Rashtrakuta king had the Kailasa temple at Ellora cut in the eighth century from a single hillside, working downward from the top - some 200,000 tonnes of rock removed to leave a free-standing temple, courtyards and gateway behind.
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