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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Which among the following is / are works of Kalidasa?
1. Ritusamhara
2. Meghaduta
3. Dasakumarcharita
4. Kumarashambhava
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Answer: C
1, 2 and 4 are his.
Ritusamhara, Meghaduta and Kumarasambhava are Kalidasa's, along with Raghuvamsa and the plays. Dasakumaracharita is by Dandin, several centuries later.
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Which among the following sects was founded by Saint Tukaram?
Answer: B
He belonged to the Varkari tradition.
Tukaram, the seventeenth-century poet-saint of Dehu, is the last of the great Varkari saints. The sect centres on Vitthala of Pandharpur, and its followers make the annual pilgrimage there carrying the palkhis of Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar.
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__________ is the traditional form of Rangoli practised in the state of Uttarakhand.
Answer: B
It is Aipan.
Aipan is the Kumaoni floor and wall art of Uttarakhand, drawn in white rice paste on a ground of red ochre, its patterns of dots and lines used at festivals and rites of passage.
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Which among the following sub-school of Vedanta is followed by ISCON?
Answer: B
ISKCON follows Achintya Bhedabheda.
The doctrine of inconceivable oneness and difference was taught by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the sixteenth century: the soul is simultaneously one with and distinct from God, in a way the mind cannot fully grasp.
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“Matrimandir” is located in:
Answer: A
It is at Puducherry.
The Matrimandir is the golden sphere at the centre of Auroville, the international township founded in 1968 near Puducherry on the ideas of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Its inner chamber holds a crystal lit by a heliostat.
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Famous Mukheshawar Temple & Ananta Basudeva temple is located in which state?
Answer: D
They are in Odisha.
The Mukteshwar and Ananta Vasudeva temples both stand at Bhubaneswar. The Mukteshwar, of about 950, is called the gem of Odishan architecture, and the Ananta Vasudeva of the thirteenth century is the only major Vishnu temple in a city of Shiva shrines.
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Pancha mahal is located in:
Answer: C
It is at Fatehpur Sikri.
The Panch Mahal is a five-storeyed open pavilion, each floor smaller than the one below, resting on 176 columns no two of which are carved alike. It was probably used by the women of the household to catch the breeze.
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In which state of North east India “Dree Festival” which is a crop harvest festival is observed?
Answer: B
It is observed in Arunachal Pradesh.
Dree is the agricultural festival of the Apatani of the Ziro valley, held in July, at which the deities are propitiated for a good harvest and against famine.
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Which of the following musical instruments is / are composite or Indo-Islamic in origin ?
1. Sitar
2. Shehnai
3. Tabla
4. Sarangi
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Answer: B
1, 3 and 4 - sitar, tabla and sarangi.
All three took their present form in the Indo-Islamic musical world of northern India, the sitar and tabla traditionally ascribed to Amir Khusro. The shehnai is of indigenous origin, related to the older shahnai and nagaswaram.
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