MCQ Questions for chapter-4 What books and burials tell us

(a)

Exp: The river “Ghod” flow through the state of Maharashtra. It starts flowing from the upper basin of the Bhima River.

(b)

Exp: The site of “Inamgaon” is located on the Bank of river Bhima. The Bhima River originates in Bhimashankar hills near Karjat on the western side of Western Ghats, known as Sahyadri, in the state of Maharashtra. This site was occupied between 3600 and 2700 years ago.

(c)

Exp: At Inamgaon the adults were mostly buried in the ground. There dead bodies were laid out straights with their heads pointing towards north. Sometimes burials were practiced within the house.

(d)

Exp: A vessel containing food and water were placed with the dead at the site of Inamgaon. This was a superstitious belief. They were of the opinion that through these offerings they were making life comfortable for the dead. Sometimes even slaves were buried with them.

(b)

Exp: At Inamgaon, a man was found buried in a large four-legged clay jar. He was found buried in the courtyard. This courtyard had a one five-roomed house. The buried man’s legs were kept intact. Many Clay jars found there had signs of animal painting.

(a)

Exp. Rig Veda is the oldest Veda. It was composed about 3500 years ago. It is one of the oldest text of any Indo-European Language.

(a)

Exp: The Rig Veda is a collection of 1028 hymns. The collection of these hymns was called by the Aryans as “sukta” or “well-said”. The Rig Vedic hymns were put into several “Mandals”.

(d)

Exp: The hymns of Rig Veda were written in praise of various Gods and goddesses.

The three important Gods were Agni, Indra and Soma. The Agni was considered the holiest among the three.

(a)

Exp: In the Rig Vedic time the God Agni was the god of fire. God Agni was considered as the mediator or the divine messenger, who receives prayers. The additional priests played the role of the supporting priests. These priests mostly chanted the vedic verses. He was the sacrificial God.

(b)

Exp: During the Rig Vedic time, he only enjoyed the title of Dev. He was the god of war and weather and also the King of the gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka.

(d)

Exp: There are certain families of languages. They are classsified into different families on the basis of the original words that a language carries.

(b)

Exp: In the ninth Mandala of the Rig vedawe found the mention of “Soma” a plant that was found on Himalayas and was used to prepare a drink that was consumed during Rig vedic sacrifices.

(b)

Exp: This manuscript of Rigveda was found on birch bark. It was used to prepare the earliest printed text of the Rigveda. It was similarly translated into English and it is at present preserved in a library in Pune.

(a)

Exp: In the Rig Veda, ten families of the “rishis” composed majority of the hymns. Some famous sages were Vasishta, Visavamitra, Atri etc.

(b)

Exp: In the Tenth Mandala of the Rig Veda the dialogue between Vishwamitra and two rivers Beas and Sutlej is mentioned. It denotes that the hymns were composed around the region where these rivers flowed.

(c)

Exp: In the Tenth Mandala of the Rig Veda the dialogue between Vishwamitra and two rivers Beas and Sutlej is mentioned. In this dialogue the sage urged rives to maintain their flow at the level of the axle of chariot wheel so that the rivers could be crossed easily.

(b)

Exp: The priests were also called as Brahmins. They enjoyed many favors from the king. They were even allotted landed property by the kings. They used to perform various rituals for the Kings.

(c)

Exp. Jana was the basic unit of the Aryan society. It slowly developed in the form of the organisation based on kinship.

(b)

Exp: The term ‘vaishya’ is originated from the word ‘Vish’. This word originated from the time of the Rig Veda. This was written to identify the whole community, which was living in a particular kingdom.

(a)

Exp: These “Dasas” were those peoples, who do not perform sacrifices. They spoke different language in comparison to the Aryans they were also differ in appearance.

(c)

Exp: The term “Dasa” were the slaves, their female counterpart were called “Dasi”. The slave group comprised of both male and female. They were captured in the wars and were treated just like a property.

(b)

Exp: They used to call themselves as “Aryas” because they had participated in the composition of the hymns. They were the people who performed the sacrifices.

(d)

Exp: A megalith is a large stone, which has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. In the burial sites this was used to give solidarity to the sites.

(a)

Exp: Before starting any burial practices the people carefully used to arrange these Megaliths and applied them cautiously.

(a)

Exp: The use of Megalith was prevalent throughout the Deccan plateau. It was found all over the South- India.

(b)

Exp: These stone boulders give us ample evidence about the point that there exist burials beneath the ground.

(c)

Exp: These pots were distinctive in nature. This type of culture had different features. In this type of pottery they used to paint motifs related to nature like trees, leafs etc on the pots.

(c)

Exp: This site was found in the state of Karnataka. This is an important archaeological site.

(b)

Exp: Portholes are essential to any ship or boat. They seal up tightly against the elements and don't allow water to enter into the ship.

(c)

Exp: “Charaka” was the famous physician of Bimbisara, the King of Magadha. Charak wrote “Charaka Sahinta” a treatise on medicine.

(a)

Exp: Charak was a famous physician, he mentioned this point in his famous book called “Charka samhita”. He arrived at this figure by counting the teeth, joints and cartilage.

(c)

Exp: The Oracle bones type of writing first developed in Japan. These types of writings were used to predict the future. The kings used to scribe this type of writing, when they won the war.

(b)

Exp: The writing first developed in China in and around 3500 years ago. This was possible because paper was first developed in China.

(c)

Exp: The kings used to scribe questions on the bones before they went to the battles. The Chinese kings used to follow these types of superficial beliefs. The bones were then put into the fire.

(b)

Exp: These fortunetellers tried to predict the future. Most of the time fortunetellers predicted wrong.

(b)

Exp: This River founds its name maximum time in the Rig Veda. The areas inhabited around this river were called Aryavat. Today we don’t find existence of this river and it is assumed that the river is at present flowing underground.

(a)

Exp: The Rigveda mentions the name of several rivers in its nadistuti (X 75). The names of the rivers that found its mention in Rigveda are R. Indus, R Kabul, R Jhelum, R. Chenab, R Saraswati, R. Gomati, R Ganga and Yamuna etc. The names of the river testifies that the Aryan people were of the Geography of regions, which were drained by these rivers.

(d)

Exp: Most of the Indian languages like Assamees, Gujarati, etc in this group. For example take the word “matr” a Sanskrit word, which is pronounced as “ma” in Hindi and further pronounced as “mother” in English.