Thinkers Beliefs and Buildings 1

How many avatars of Vishnu were identified by the Vaishnavas?

• eight
• nine
• ten
• eleven

During the mid-first millenium BC, the religious philosophy of Zarathustra prevailed in

• Greece.
• China.
• India.
• Iran.

Hagiography is the biography of a/an:

• king
• brahmin
• scholar
• saint

Vardhamana came to be known as

• Buddha.
• Kalhana.
• Kalidasa.
• Mahavira.

After Buddhism reached East Asia, pilgrims travelled to India, in search of Buddhist texts, from:

• Tibet
• China
• Korea
• Japan

A form of Hinduism within which Vishnu was worshipped as the principal deity is known as

• Brahmanism.
• Vaishnavism.
• Shaivism.
• Bhagavatism.

The famous Buddhist centre Amaravati is located in the modern Indian State of

• Andhra Pradesh.
• Assam.
• Karnataka.
• Tamil Nadu.

In cities of Taxila and Peshawar, Indo-Greek rulers had established kingdoms in the

• second century BCE.
• third century BCE.
• fourth century BCE.
• fifth century BCE.

Buddha was born in

• Lumbini.
• Vaishali.
• Gaya.
• Rajgriha.

According to Jainism, the last tirthankara was:

• Makkhali Gosala
• Siddhartha
• Mahavira
• Ajita Kesakambalin