Answer: Option A. -> 275 times
Answer: (a) The term ‘Jana’ occurs 275 times in the Rigveda. But Janapada is not mentioned. The term Rajya occurs only once.

Answer: Option A. -> 1 and 2
Answer: (a)
Gautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. His first teacher was Alara Kalama who taught a form of meditation leading to an exalted form of absorption called "the state of no-thingness", a state without moral or cognitive dimension.
Gautama saw this was not going to solve suffering, and continued his search. The next teacher was Udraka Ramaputra who taught him meditative absorption leading to "the state of neither perception nor non-perception".
Again, Gautama realised this was not the state he was looking for. (Both Alara and Udraka are by some scholars considered to be Jain followers.)

Answer: Option C. -> Satwali
Answer: (c)

Answer: Option C. -> Arya
Answer: (c)
The Aryans were the founder of Vedic culture. The Aryans entered India through the Khyber pass, around 1500 BC. They adopted the settled agricultural lifestyle of their predecessors and established small agrarian communities across the state of Punjab.
The Aryans are believed to have brought with them the horse, developed the Sanskrit language and made significant inroads into the religion and culture of that time.

Answer: Option C. -> Jhelum
Answer: (c)
The river Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda. The Vitasta is mentioned as one of the major rivers by the holy scriptures of the IndoAryans — the Rigveda.
It has been speculated that the Vitasta must have been one of the seven rivers (Sapta Sindhu) mentioned so many times in the Rigveda.

Answer: Option B. -> Vajasaneyi Samhita
Answer: (b)Yajurveda has two main branches called Shukla Yajurveda and Krishna Yajurveda. Shukla Yajurveda is also called as “Vajasameyi Samhita” and it was brought to this world by Sage Yaajnavalkya after learning from the God Sun.

Answer: Option A. -> Aitreya Brahmana
Answer: (a)

Answer: Option A. -> 2 only
Answer: (a)
To understand the knowledge of the Vedas in a proper and systematic manner, the Vedangas were created, like,
Shiksha (to pronounce prayers correctly),
Kalpa (the rules to perform sacrifice in a proper manner),
Vyakaran (graer),
Nirukta (etymology of words in the Vedas),
Chanda (to musical rules of ecitation),
Jyotish (proper time to perform sacrifices).
Shaddarshanas
To understand the philosophical content of Vedas, the Shad-darshanas were created, like,
Nyaya (of Gautam, explaining logic),
Sankhya (of Kapil, explaining the unity of soul with God),
Yog (of Patanjali),
Vaisheshik (Kanand, regarding atoms),
Purva-mimasa (Jaimini, Vedic rituals),
Uttar-mimasa (Badaraya, structure of universe, spiritualism) etc.

Answer: Option D. -> Bhagvan Das Gidvani
Answer: (d) The book ‘Return of the Aryans’ was written by Bhagvan S. Gidvani. This book tells the epic story of the Aryans – a gripping tale of kings and poets, seers and gods, battles and romance and the rise and fall of civilizations.

Answer: Option A. -> Cow
Answer: (a) The word Aghanya is referred to as the cow in many mantras of Vedas. The meaning of this word means, “not to be killed under any circumstances”.