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UPSC CDS Ancient Indian History — practice questions — page 15

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Rigvedic hymns are called sukta, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Rigveda, Agni is the god of:Read the answer and worked solution →The hymns of the Rigveda were composed by sages known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rigveda is written in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sanskrit belongs to which family of languages?Read the answer and worked solution →Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?Read the answer and worked solution →A Rigvedic hymn records sage Vishvamitra in dialogue with which two rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →The birch bark manuscript of the Rigveda used for early printed texts was found in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Rigveda, the Ganga and Yamuna are named how many times?Read the answer and worked solution →Rigvedic battles fought with horse-drawn chariots were mainly to capture:Read the answer and worked solution →Sacrifices in which offerings of ghee, grain and animals were made into the fire were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Rigvedic rajas were unlike later kings because they:Read the answer and worked solution →Composers of the hymns called themselves Aryas and their opponents:Read the answer and worked solution →Later, the word dasa came to mean:Read the answer and worked solution →Large stone boulders arranged to mark burial sites are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The practice of erecting megaliths began about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The distinctive pots found in megalithic burials are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Tools and weapons in megalithic burials were mostly of:Read the answer and worked solution →At Brahmagiri one skeleton was buried with how many gold beads?Read the answer and worked solution →Inamgaon lies on the river Ghod, a tributary of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Early Chinese writing about 3500 years ago was on animal bones called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Rigvedic wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the megalith wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Vedic ageRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Vedic wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rigveda or megalithRead the answer and worked solution →Sort gods, people and burialsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Books and burials bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest people known in the subcontinent lived as early as:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Rigvedic hymns are called sukta, meaning:

  1. Praising
  2. Well-said
  3. Sacred one
  4. Ancient
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Correct answer: B. Well-said

1. The hymns praise gods and goddesses. 2. Sukta means well-said. 3. They were composed by rishis. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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In the Rigveda, Agni is the god of:

  1. Fire
  2. Rain
  3. War
  4. Sun
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Correct answer: A. Fire

1. Three gods are especially important. 2. Agni is the god of fire. 3. Indra is a warrior god. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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The hymns of the Rigveda were composed by sages known as:

  1. Vish
  2. Rishis
  3. Rajas
  4. Dasas
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Correct answer: B. Rishis

1. Priests taught students to memorise each syllable. 2. The composers were rishis. 3. A few hymns were composed by women. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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