Deck 6: Historical and Mythological Literature of India

Question 1

Geneology, mythology and historical narrative are the three main constituence of _________tradition

A)Ithihasa- Purana
B)aranyakas
C)Vedas
D)samhithas

Answer 1

Ithihasa- Purana

Question 2

How many puranas are there in India?

A)12
B)18
C)15
D)10

Answer 2

18

Question 3

__________purana contains the information about the satavahanas.

A)Vayu Purana
B)Bhavishyapurana
C)Matsya Purana
D)Vishnupurana

Answer 3

Matsya Purana

Question 4

According to ___________the four varnas are said to have sprung from the body of the god Prajapati.

A)Ithihasa
B)Purushasuktha
C)Purana
D)Vedas

Question 5

Historical writings of Vamsacharitas were started in which century?

A)7th Century
B)8th century
C)10th century
D)9th century

Question 6

Harshacharita is written by which writer?

A)Bilhana
B)Bana
C)Jayanga
D)Athula

Question 7

___________ is considered as the first historical chronicle of Kerala.

A)Rajatarangini
B)Harshacharita
C)Prithviraja vijaya
D)Mushakavamsa kavya

Question 8

Mushakavamsa Kavya deals with the dynastic history of the rulers of which region?

A)Valluvanadu
B)Thiruvitamkur
C)Kolothunadu
D)Venadu

Question 9

Rajatarangini is the chronicle on the kings of __________

A)Kashmir
B)Kerala
C)Delhi
D)Karnataka

Question 10

"only a poet can bring the past with the eye of his mind, by divine intuition", whose statement is this?

A)Bana
B)Kalhana
C)Athula
D)Jayanga

Question 11

Zia Ud Din Barani served as an adviser to Sultan ______

A)Firoz sha Tuglaq
B)jalaludhin Khalji
C)Ghiyasudhin Thughlaq
D)Muhammed bin Thuglaq

Question 12

Fatwa-i-Jahandari is written in which language?

A)Arabic
B)Hindi
C)Persian
D)Sanskrit

Question 13

Abul Fazal was a historian in the court of _______

A)Khalji
B)Mughals
C)satavahanas
D)Mauryas

Question 14

The book Akbarnama was written by _____________

A)Abul Fazal
B)Athula
C)Kalhana
D)Bana

Question 15

Ain i Akbari is the _________ part of Akbarnama

A)First
B)Third
C)Second
D)Fourth

Question 16

Which author translated Bhagavad-Gita from Sanskrit to Persian?

A)Bana
B)Abul Fazal
C)Kalhana
D)Vyasa

Question 17

Tarikh -i- ferishta was written as per the instructions of which ruler?

A)nizam shah
B)Muhammad Bin Tuglaq
C)Akbar
D)Ibrahim Adil shah

Question 18

Romila Thapar was the student of _____

A)Basham
B)Bipan Chandra
C)Eric Hobsbawm
D)Kosambi

Question 19

Which among the following is not a work of Romila Thapar?

A)Past and Prejudice
B)Lineage to State
C)Knowing India
D)Indian Numismatics

Question 20

Mushakavamsa Kavya was written in_______

A)10th century
B)11th Century
C)12th Century
D)9th Century