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The famous female figurine known as 'Dancing Girl', found at Mohenjo-daro, is made ofRead the answer and worked solution →Who among the following was the founder of the 'Self-Respect Movement'?Read the answer and worked solution →Which one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa?Read the answer and worked solution →“Yogavāsistha” was translated into Persian by Nizamuddin Panipati during the reign of:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The famous female figurine known as 'Dancing Girl', found at Mohenjo-daro, is made of

  1. carnelian
  2. clay
  3. bronze
  4. gold
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Correct answer: C. bronze

UPSC CSE Prelims 2025 (GS-I, Set A), Q.72. Official answer key: C.

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Who among the following was the founder of the 'Self-Respect Movement'?

  1. 'Periyar' E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker
  2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
  3. Bhaskarrao Jadhav
  4. Dinkarrao Javalkar
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Correct answer: A. 'Periyar' E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker

UPSC CSE Prelims 2025 (GS-I, Set A), Q.78. Official answer key: A.

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Which one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa?

  1. Kavyalankara
  2. Natyashastra
  3. Madhyama-vyayoga
  4. Mahabhashya
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Correct answer: C. Madhyama-vyayoga

Answer: C. Madhyama-vyayoga is attributed to playwright Bhasa. Bhasa (c. 3rd-4th century CE or earlier) was a major Sanskrit playwright whose works were rediscovered in 1912 by T. Ganapati Sastri in Kerala. Thirteen plays are now attributed to him, collectively called the 'Trivandrum Plays' or 'Bhasa Plays'. Madhyama-vyayoga (The Middle One) is a one-act play from Bhasa's corpus, dramatising a moving episode involving Bhima and his son Ghatotkacha from the Mahabharata. Distractors fail: (A) Kavyalankara is a treatise on poetics by BHAMAHA. (B) Natyashastra is the great treatise on dramaturgy by BHARATA Muni. (D) Mahabhashya is a grammatical commentary on Panini's Ashtadhyayi by PATANJALI. Source: syllabus Themes in World History + standard Sanskrit literature references.

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