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Run the textsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the varnasRead the answer and worked solution →Brahmanical or BuddhistRead the answer and worked solution →Who was itRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Early society bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Rigveda, compiled between c. 1500 and 1000 BCE, praises which deities especially?Read the answer and worked solution →Elaborate sacrifices like the rajasuya and ashvamedha were performed by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Buddhist texts mention how many sects or schools of thought in the age of debate?Read the answer and worked solution →A hut with a pointed roof where philosophers debated was called a:Read the answer and worked solution →After the Buddha's death his teachings were compiled at a council of elders at which place?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Pitaka contains rules and regulations for those who joined the sangha?Read the answer and worked solution →The Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa are chronicles of Buddhism in which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Makkhali Gosala, who held that everything is predetermined, belonged to which tradition?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Jaina tradition, how many tirthankaras preceded Mahavira?Read the answer and worked solution →Jaina monks and nuns took five vows. Which of these was NOT one of them?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha was born Siddhartha, son of a chief of which clan?Read the answer and worked solution →In Buddhist philosophy the world is anicca. What does anicca mean?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha's reported last words asked followers to be what unto themselves?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the first woman ordained as a bhikkhuni?Read the answer and worked solution →The Therigatha is a collection of verses composed by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha attained nibbana at which place?Read the answer and worked solution →In a stupa, the balcony-like structure above the mound that represents the abode of the gods is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Worshippers entered a stupa through which gateway and walked clockwise?Read the answer and worked solution →Which commissioner of Guntur carried Amaravati sculptures to Madras in 1854?Read the answer and worked solution →Women swinging from a tree at the Sanchi gateway represent which auspicious motif?Read the answer and worked solution →The new Buddhist tradition that worshipped Bodhisattas and Buddha images was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Buddhist sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the stupa partsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Pali termsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Manusmriti
    Choices
    1. Manusmriti
    2. Jataka
    3. Puranaruru
  2. Correct
    Jataka
    Choices
    1. Manusmriti
    2. Jataka
    3. Puranaruru
  3. Correct
    Puranaruru
    Choices
    1. Manusmriti
    2. Jataka
    3. Puranaruru
  4. Correct
    Sutta Pitaka
    Choices
    1. Sutta Pitaka
    2. Majjhima N.
    3. Gita
  5. Correct
    Majjhima N.
    Choices
    1. Sutta Pitaka
    2. Majjhima N.
    3. Gita
  6. Correct
    Gita
    Choices
    1. Sutta Pitaka
    2. Majjhima N.
    3. Gita
Instructions
Pick the lane naming the text for each clue.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies._

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Slice the varnas

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Does not match the category
  1. Nishada
  2. Chandala
  3. Mlechchha
  4. Rakshasa
Matches the category
  1. Brahmana
  2. Kshatriya
  3. Vaishya
  4. Shudra
Instructions
Slice only the four varnas.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies._

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Brahmanical or Buddhist

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Upper category
Brahmanic
Lower category
Buddhist
Items
  1. Category
    Brahmanic
    Item
    Manusmriti
  2. Category
    Brahmanic
    Item
    Purusha
  3. Category
    Brahmanic
    Item
    Rigveda
  4. Category
    Brahmanic
    Item
    Gotra
  5. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Jataka
  6. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Majjhima
  7. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Sutta Pit.
  8. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Mahasammat
Instructions
Send each text to the Brahmanical or Buddhist tradition.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies._

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