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Which one of the following stages of the life of man in Aryan Society, in ascending order of age, is correct?
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Ashram system of Vedic period were the four stages of life. The four Ashramas are -
(i) Brahmacharya (Student life)
(ii) Grihastha (familylife)
(iii) Vanaprastha (Retired life)
(iv) Sanyasa (life of renunciation)
22
The Atharva Veda does not discuss the ideal of
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Moksha also called vimoksha, vimukti and mukti, is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism which refers to various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth. In its epistemological and psychological senses, moksha refers to freedom from ignorance: self-realization, self-actualization and self-knowledge.
23
Which of the following was the God of Animal during the later Vedic period?
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
Rudra, in the form of Pashupati is the God of the animals in the vedic period.
24
Which of the following Gods lost his importance as the first deity during the later Vedic period?
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
God Varuna lost his importance as the first deity during the later vedic period.
25
The Upanishads are a series of books devoted to
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Upanishads are religious and philosophical treatises, forming part of the early Indian Vedas. The preceding portions are the Mantras, or Hymns to the Vedic gods, and the Brahmaṇas, or directories on and explanations of the sacrificial ritual.
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The staple food of the Vedic Aryans was
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well. Milk and its products were used by the Vedic Aryan as a staple food.
27
The Vedic religion along with its Later (Vedic) developments is actually known as
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedism, Brahmanism, Vedic Brahmanism, and ancient Hinduism) refers to the religious ideas and practices among Indo-Aryan-speaking peoples of ancient India after about 1500 BCE.
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The Earliest Settlements of Aryan tribes were at
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
The Aryans were pastoral Nomads. They settled in villages. The region which the Aryans occupied was known as Sapta Sindhu.
29
Which of the following rivers does not find frequent mention in Rigvedic Hymns?
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Brahmaputra rivers does not find frequent mention in Rigvedic Hymns.
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In the Rigveda the term Dasas and Dasyus refers to
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
The Rigveda contains accounts of conflicts between the Aryas and the Dasas and Dasyus. It describes Dasas and Dasyus as people who do not perform sacrifices (akratu) or obey the commandments of gods (avrata). Their speech is described as mridhra which could variously mean soft, uncouth, hostile, scornful or abusive. Other adjectives which describe their physical appearance are subject to many interpretations. However, some modern scholars such as Asko Parpola connect the Dasas and Dasyus to Iranian tribes Dahae and Dahyu and believe that Dasas and Dasyus were early Indo-Aryan immigrants who arrived into the subcontinent before the Vedic Aryans.