What are the grounds for the belief that the ancient Iranians and the Vedic Aryans belong to the same race?
Correct Answer:
(C)
There is a close similarity between the language of the Vedas and that of Avesta.
The Rig Vedic and Avestan languages are essentially the same, with very minor differences in grammar. They share a common vocabulary in the fields of mythology, ritual, culture, and religious practices.
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22
Where is Boghazkoi situated and what is the importance of it?
Correct Answer:
(B)
In Central Asia, some coins of Rig Vedic kings have been found there.
Harappan Civilization and Rigveda
A careful consideration of the evidence of the Rig Veda will lead to the conclusion that references it contains about people and their civilization may be taken to refer to the Harappan civilization.
The Discovery of Boghaz-Koi inscription (of 14th century B.C.) mentioned Rig Vedic deities that the Rig Veda existed earlier and the culture migrated from India to Asia Minor in that early age.
The time period of the Rig Veda in its final form should be placed not later than about 3,000 B.C.
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23
Which of the following was not one of the distinguished tribes of the later Vedic Period?
Correct Answer:
(A)
Videhas
Rise of Big States:
With the progress of Aryan settlements in the eastern and southern part of India, the small tribal states of Rig Vedic period replaced by powerful states. Many famous tribes of Rig Vedic period like Bharatas, Parus, Tritsus and Turvasas passed into oblivion and new tribes like the Kurus and Panchalas rose into prominence. The land of the Yamuna and Ganga in the east which became the new home of the Aryans rose into prominence.
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24
Which of the following are known as Brahmanas?
Correct Answer:
(B)
Explanatory prose manuals relating to prayer and sacrificial ceremony.
lanatory prose manuals relating to prayer and sacrificial ceremony.
Commentaries appended to the Aranyakas dealing with philosophical questions.
Books dealing with worship and contemplation meant for wood-dwelling hermits
Ans (b)
Exp: The Brahmanas, it is well known, form our chief, if not our only, source of information regarding one of the most important periods in the social and mental development of India. They represent the intellectual activity of a sacerdotal caste which, by turning to account the religious instincts of a gifted and naturally devout race, had succeeded in transforming a primitive worship of the powers of nature into a highly artificial system of sacrificial ceremonies, and was ever intent on deepening and extending its hold on the minds of the people, by surrounding its own vocation with the halo of sanctity and divine inspiration.
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25
Which of the following Brahmanas belongs to the Yajurveda?
Correct Answer:
(A)
Satpatha
The Satapatha Brahmana is a prose text describing Vedic rituals, history and mythology associated with the Shukla Yajurveda. The text describes in great detail the preparation of altars, ceremonial objects, ritual recitations, and the Soma libation, along with the symbolic attributes of every aspect of the rituals.
Brahmanas of Yajurveda include the following:
Kathaka Brahmana
Krishna: The Brahmanas are integrated into the samhitas
Maitrayani
Carakakatha
Kapisthalakatha
Taittiriya Brahmana
Shatapatha Brahmana
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26
‘Gopatha Brahmana’ is associated with –
Correct Answer:
(C)
Atharvaveda
The Gopatha Brahmana is the only Brahmana, a genre of the prose texts describing the Vedic rituals, associated with the Atharvaveda. The text is associated with both the Shaunaka and the Paippalada recensions of the Atharvaveda.
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27
Which of the following is a Samhita of Shukla Yajurveda?
Correct Answer:
(A)
Vajasanami
There are two branches of Yajurveda-Shukla Yajurveda and Krishna Yajurveda. Vajasnami is the Samhita of Shukla Yajurveda. Shukla Yajurveda is available only in the poetic form whereas Krishna Yajurveda contains both poetic as well as prose form.
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28
Which one of the following four Vedas contains an account of magical charms and spells?
Correct Answer:
(C)
Atharvaveda
The earliest description of charms and spells can be found in Atharvaveda.
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29
The priest associated with King Videgha Madhava referred in Shatapatha Brahmana was –
Correct Answer:
(D)
Rishi Gautama Rahugana
It is believed that Saraswati was the scene of the activities of the famous Vedic tribes - the Bharatas, the Purus, and the Kurus. The Shatapatha Brahmana narrates the story of King Videgha Madhava (a king of Videha) accompanied by his priest Rishi Gautama Rahugana, carrying the sacred fire to east preserving thereby the tradition that the Kosalas and the Vide has received from their culture.
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30
In the period of Mahabharata, the name of Mahanadi was
Correct Answer:
(D)
None of these
The name of Mahanadi during the period of Mahabharat was 'Chitrotpala'. In the Bhishma festival of Mahabharata, the Chitrotpala river is praised as Punayadayini and Sin Vashinini. Indian people drank the water of Chitrotpala. The Mahanadi has been called Chitrotpala Ganga in the Mahoba copper plate of Someshwar Dev.