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The founder of Buddhism, also known as Gautama, was named:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha belonged to a small gana and by birth he was a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha meditated under a peepal tree and gained enlightenment at:Read the answer and worked solution →After his enlightenment, the Buddha gave his very first teaching at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha spent his last days travelling on foot and passed away at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha taught that suffering is caused by craving, which he called:Read the answer and worked solution →According to the Buddha, craving could be removed by following:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha said the results of our actions, good or bad, affect us. These results are:Read the answer and worked solution →Upanishadic thinkers called the individual soul by the name:Read the answer and worked solution →Upanishadic thinkers called the universal soul by the name:Read the answer and worked solution →The later Vedic texts recording conversations between teachers and students are the:Read the answer and worked solution →The word Upanishad literally means approaching and:Read the answer and worked solution →A woman thinker famous for her learning who debated in royal courts was:Read the answer and worked solution →A student named after his mother, a slave woman, who became a famous thinker was:Read the answer and worked solution →The scholar who prepared a grammar for Sanskrit at this time was:Read the answer and worked solution →Panini wrote the rules of Sanskrit in short formulae numbering around:Read the answer and worked solution →Vardhamana Mahavira is remembered as the last tirthankara of the Jainas, numbered:Read the answer and worked solution →Mahavira left home at the age of thirty and lived hard in a forest for:Read the answer and worked solution →The central rule Mahavira taught, meaning not hurting or killing living beings, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Mahavira and his followers taught in a language ordinary people understood, called:Read the answer and worked solution →The association in which monks and nuns lived together was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The rules made for the Buddhist sangha were written down in a book called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Buddhist termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Upanishad wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the thinkers gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the old ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Buddha or MahaviraRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the old teachingsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →New ideas bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The founder of Buddhism, also known as Gautama, was named:

  1. Siddhartha
  2. Shankaracha
  3. Satyakamaji
  4. Sudarshanji
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Correct answer: A. Siddhartha

1. The founder had more than one name. 2. One of them is used in his birth story. 3. That name is Siddhartha. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Class VI, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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The Buddha belonged to a small gana and by birth he was a:

  1. Goldsmith
  2. Kshatriya
  3. Carpenter
  4. Merchants
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Correct answer: B. Kshatriya

1. He came from the Sakya gana. 2. His varna is named in the account. 3. He was a kshatriya. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Class VI, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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The Buddha meditated under a peepal tree and gained enlightenment at:

  1. Bodh Gaya
  2. Kapilvastu
  3. Kusinaraja
  4. Rajagrihas
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Correct answer: A. Bodh Gaya

1. He meditated for days in one place in Bihar. 2. That place is named for the event. 3. It is Bodh Gaya. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Class VI, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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