Brief history of Hinduism

With the departure of Kṛṣṇa from the Earth’s plane, the ........ Yuga begins

• Kali

• Treta

• Dvāpara

• Satya

Around 500 BC, Gautama Buddha preached a philosophy that rejected the authority of the .......

• Vedas

• mantras

• Upanishads

• Itihasas

Around 600 AD, the ....... began preaching ecstatic devotion to Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa and Śiva

• Buddhists

• Āḻvār

• Nayanars

• Jains

Around the 8th-9th century, ............ compiled and taught his philosophy.

• Śaṅkara Ācārya

• Rāmānuja Ācārya

• Madhva Ācārya

• Tukārām

Śaṅkara Ācārya through his writing and debates with various opponents revived the ......... tradition

• Vedic
• Yogic
• Buddhist
• Christian

Around 1000 AD great Ācāryas such as Rāmānuja and Madhva also put forward their schools of ..............

• Vedānta
• Yoga
• Mīmāṃsā
• Sāṃkhya

Around 1000 AD, ................... raiders began to invade and ransack Indian shrines and centres which were rich in resources

• Muslim
• Christian
• Buddhist
• Chinese

Kabīr, Tukārām and Mīrā Bāī were part of the great Bhakti movement that took place between the ............. century

• 13th-15th
• 17th-19th
• 2nd-3rd
• 7th-12th

In 1947, through the inspiration of ......... , India won its independence

• Gandhi
• Buddha
• Modi
• Akhbar

Around the 17th-18th century the ........... began to enter India

• British
• Germans
• Chinese
• Russians