Social Science [1 Mark Questions]

Ancient India achieved wonderful heights in the field of fine arts, viz., architecture, sculpture, painting, jewellery, metallurgy, stone and metal polishing, and engineering.

It lays stress on many aspects of Bhakti.

Mahabharta and Ramayana.

Manimekalai.

Uttar Pradesh.

Aryabhata was great astronomer.

Aihole.

Aryabhata was a mathematician and an astronomer. He wrote the book Aryabhatiyam in Sanskrit.

Valmiki is recognised as the authwor of the sanskrit Ramayana.

Epics are grand, long compositions, about heroic men and women and include stories about gods.

Sanskrit.

Ved Vyasa was a great seer, guru, author, poet and philosopher in the Hindu religion. He composed Mahabharata.

Sanchi Stupa is a wellknown among all Stupas.

A place where the image of the chief deity was placed.

Ayodhya.

Polish.

Ved Vyasa.

A stupa is a type of Buddhist monument.

There are several kinds of Stupas like round and tall, big and small.

Sitappadikar and Manimekalai are two Tamil epics.

Silappadikaram and Manimekalai.

It is a famous temple site in uttar Pradesh.

Stories about goods and goddesses are found in the epics.

Andhra Pradesh.

By plants and minerals.

Sanskrit.

A story of a merchant named Kovalan, who fell in love with a courtesan named Madhavi.

llango who was the brother of Chera king Senaguttavan.

Andhra Pradesh.

Valmiki.

Vyasa.

Delhi.

Hastinapur at present is located near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

The Mahabharata, written by sage Vyas, refers to a war fought between the Kauravas and Pandavas who were cousins. This was a war to gain control over the throne of the Kurus, and their capital, Hastinapur.

It was invented by Cai Lun in China.

It describes the story of the daughter of Kovalan and Madhavi, the characters of the epic Silappadikaram.

This story is shown on a piece of sculpture found from a stupa at Bharhut in central India.

Paper was invented in China by Cai Lun about 1900 years ago.

It was adopted by Arabs and then spread to Europe.

‘Zero’ was invented by Aryabhata.

The book named Aryabhatiyam was written by Aryabhata.

Women and Shudras were not allowed to read the Vedas but the Puranas could be read by all.

Ramayana was composed by Valmiki. This was in Sanskrit language.

A tower built on the top of the garbhagriha of temple. This tower is called shikhara. This indicates about a sacred place.

The main or central place of temples is called garbhagriha where image of deity is placed for worship.

Vishnu, Shiva and Durga were worshipped in the earliest temples of Hindus.

Amravati was famous because there were magnificent stupas.

The devotees move into clockwise direction to show their devotion.

Stupa means a mound.

The most amazing feature of Iron Pillar is that it has not rusted in all these years.

Iron Pillar was made by Chandra who probably belonged to the Gupta Dynasty. It was made about 1500 years ago in Delhi.

Most probably, the King or Queen spent the money for temples and stupas.

Deities such as Vishnu, Shiva and Durga were worshipped.

Manimekalai epic was composed by Sattanar.

Ilango was the writer of Silappadikaram.

Silappadikaram and Manimekalai are two famous epics.

Around the stupa, the path was known as the ‘pradakshina patha’. Devotees walked around the stupa in a clockwise direction, as a mark of devotion.

Probably it was made during the Ashoka period.

In Madhya Pradesh.

Amaravati was famous because it is a place where a magnificent stupa once existed.

Ajanta is famous because there are several caves which were hollowed out of the hills. Most of these were monasteries for Buddhist monks. Some of them were decorated with paintings.

A path was laid around the stupa known as the pradakshina patha. This was surrounded with railings. Entrance of the path was through gateways.

This may contain bodily remains such as teeth, bones or ashes of the Buddha or his followers, or things they used, as well as precious stones and coins.