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Right Answer: 1The Mahabharatha is not a Veda however it is treated as fifth Veda.Question ID: 78
Right Answer: 3Buddha preaching his first sermon in a deer forest at Sarnath, north of Bodhgaya, where he had experienced enlightenment some weeks prior.Question ID: 197
Right Answer: 1Meghadoota is a lyric poem written by Kalidasa (4th-5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author. It describes how a yaksa, who had been banished by his master to a remote region for a year, asked a cloud to take a message of love to his wife.Question ID: 159
Right Answer: 2The Parinirvana Stupa is a Buddhist temple in Kushinagar, India which is said to be the place of death of Gautama Buddha.Question ID: 196
Right Answer: 1Shakuntala is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. Her story is told in the Mahabharata and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaption being Kalidasa's play Abhignana Sakuntala.Question ID: 178
Right Answer: 2The Mahabhasya is a great commentary by Patanjali on selected rules of Sanskrit grammar from Patanjali's treatise, the Astadhyayi, as well as Katyayana's varttika-sutra, an elaboration of Panni's grammar during the 2nd century CE.Question ID: 177
Right Answer: 1Gulbadan Begum ( c. 1523-1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. Humayun Nama was the biography of Emperor Humayun.Question ID: 146
Right Answer: 1Nagarjuna's unique perspective which is grounded in the insight of emptiness (sunyata), a concept which does not mean “non-existence” or “nihility” (abhava), but rather the lack of autonomous existence (nihsvabhava).Question ID: 47
Right Answer: 1The Great Bath is part of a large citadel complex that was found in the 1920s during excavations of Mohenjo-daro, one of the main centres of the Indus civilization.Question ID: 258
Right Answer: 1The Four Noble Truths are regarded as the central doctrine of the Buddhist tradition, and are said to provide a conceptual framework for all of Buddhist thought. These four truths explain the nature of dukkha, samudaya, nirodha and marga.Question ID: 189
Right Answer: 1The period between the 4th and 6th centuries CE is known as the Golden Age of India because of the considerable achievements of Indians in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, science, religion and philosophy during the Gupta Empire.Question ID: 2
Right Answer: 3Queen Maya Devi of Sakya was mother of Gautama Buddh. She died after seven days giving him birth.Question ID: 145
Right Answer: 3Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. The Brahmo Samaj was a monotheistic sect of Hinduism. The movement began through meetings of Bengalis in Calcutta in 1828Question ID: 82
Right Answer: 1The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the north western regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE.Question ID: 257
Right Answer: 3The civilization was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro), near the Indus River in the Sindh (Sind) region.Question ID: 255
Right Answer: 4Gautama Buddha was married to Yasodhara who was the daughter of King Suppabuddha.Question ID: 194
Right Answer: 1Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization.Question ID: 44
Right Answer: 3Hindu Vijayanagara Empire capital in the 14th century, presently known as Hampi situated in Karnataka State, India. It was identified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.Question ID: 34
Right Answer: 1Metals such as copper, lead, gold, bronze and silver were used by the metallurgists of Indus Valley. Iron was not used by indus people.Question ID: 254
Right Answer: 3Ashoka the Great was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, converted to Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War, which he had waged out of a desire for conquest and which reportedly directly resulted in more than 100,000 deaths and 150,000 deportations.Question ID: 144