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VEDIC AGE MCQs

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Question 31. The Rig-Vedic Aryans were a pastoral people is born out by the fact that
  1.    Most of the wars were fought for the sake of cows
  2.    Gifts made to priests were usually cows
  3.    There are many references to the cow in the Rig-Veda
  4.    All of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> All of these
Question 32. Who compiled the tales of "The Panchatantra"?
  1.    Veda Vyasa
  2.    Vishnu Sharma
  3.    Tulsidas
  4.    Valmiki
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Vishnu Sharma
Question 33. Division of the Vedic society into four classes is clearly mentioned in the
  1.    Purusa-sukta of Rigveda
  2.    Yajurveda
  3.    Upanishads
  4.    Shatapatha Brahmana
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Purusa-sukta of Rigveda
Question 34. Which of the following are essentially books of rituals?
  1.    The Brahmanas
  2.    The Aranyakas
  3.    The Upanishads
  4.    The Vedas
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> The Brahmanas
Question 35. The Upanishads are the__________
  1.    Source of Hindu Philosophy
  2.    Great Epics
  3.    Story Books
  4.    Law Books
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Source of Hindu Philosophy
Question 36. Who among the following was not a physician?
  1.    Charaka
  2.    Charvaka
  3.    Sushruta
  4.    Dhanvantari
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Charvaka
Question 37. The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of
  1.    Saptasindhu
  2.    Kashmir and Punjab
  3.    Gangetic Doab
  4.    Central India
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Saptasindhu
Question 38. The Hindu social sacraments such as marriage etc. are performed on the basis of the rituals described in the
  1.    Upanishad
  2.    Yajurveda
  3.    Grihyasutras
  4.    Rigveda
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Grihyasutras
Question 39. Earlier mathematicians (i.e. those who came before medieval Indian mathematicians) had taught that X/O= X; who among the following proved that it was infinity?
  1.    Brahmagupta
  2.    Mahavira
  3.    Aryabhatta
  4.    Bhaskara
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Bhaskara
Question 40. The first to invade India were the
  1.    Arabs
  2.    Persians
  3.    Greeks
  4.    Aryans
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Aryans

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