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21. The caste system of India was created for _____.
A. Economic uplift
B. Immobility of labour
C. Recognization of the dignity of labour
D. Occupational division of labour
ANSWER:D
SOLUTION : The cast system in vedic period was occupational division of labour but in post vedicon the behalf of the birth.
22. Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas?
A. Patanjali
B. Kapila
C. Vyasa
D. Shankaracharya
ANSWER:C
SOLUTION:Vyasa is the compiler of the Vedas, who arranged the four kinds of mantras into four Samhitas.
23. The tax which the kings used to collect from the people in the Vedic period was called _____.
A. Bali
B. Vidatha
C. Varman
D. Karn
ANSWER:A
SOLUTION:In Vedic age the king used to collect Bali from the people which is an offering made to king or God. It was voluntarily paid in Rig-Vedic Period but later it was made compulsory.
24. Two highest gods in the Vedic religion were _____.
A. Agni and Savitri
B. Vishnu and Mitra
C. Indra and Varun
D. Surya and Pushan
ANSWER:C
SOLUTION:In early Hinduism, Varuna Sanskrit (meaning “to surround”) was a Vedic solar god who, in Hindu mythology, presided over the celestial ocean surrounding the earth. In ancient India, he enjoyed supremacy over the Vedic pantheon as the god of the universal law/moral order (rta), though he was eventually usurped by Indra, the god of storms.
25. The home of Gargi, Maitrey and Kapila was at _____.
A. Vidisha
B. Ujjain
C. Pataliputra
D. Mithila
ANSWER:D
SOLUTION:Gargi,Maitrey and Kapila all were great philosophers of Vedic Age. They all belonged to Mithila (present-Bihar). Mithila is a geographical and cultural region located in the Indian subcontinent, comprising Tirhut, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Munger, Bhagalpur and Santhal Pargana divisions of India and some adjoining districts of Nepal. The native language is known as Maithili and its speakers are referred to as Maithils.
26. The words “Satyameva Jayate” in the state Emblem of India were taken from ____.
A. Rig Veda
B. Upanishads
C. Samaveda
D. Ramayana
ANSWER:B
SOLUTION : “Satyameva Jayate” (Truth alone triumphs) is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad.
27. The first grammarian of the Sankskrit language was ____.
A. Kalhana
B. Maitreyi
C. Kalidas
D. Panini
ANSWER:D
SOLUTION: Pāṇini (fl. 4th century BCE or “6th to 5th century BCE”) was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India.
28. The famous Kalidas lived in the court of ____.
A. Chandragupta
B. Chandragupta-II
C. Samudragupta
D. Kumaragupta
ANSWER:B
SOLUTION:Kalidasa was a court poet of a king named Vikramaditya(Chandragupta-II).
29. The philosophy propounded in the Upanishads is known as _____.
A. Advaita
B. Vedanta
C. Yoga
D. Samkhya
ANSWER:B
SOLUTION: The Upanishads are commonly referred to as Vedanta. The Upanishads alone are widely known and among the most important literature in the history of Indian religions and culture and their central ideas are at the spiritual core of Hindus. The upanishads are a part of the Vedas and are ancient Sanskrit texts that contain some of the central philosophical concepts and ideas of Hinduism, some of which are shared with Buddhism, and Jainism.
30. The family of the Rigvedic Arayans was _____.
A. Patrilineal
B. Patriarchal
C. Matriarchal
D. Matrilineal
ANSWER:B
SOLUTION:The family system was based on the patriarchal form of society where the father or the grandfather wielded the supreme authority.