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Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 55mins
There are four Vedas –
Rigveda
Samaveda
,Yajurveda
Atharvaveda.
The oldest Veda is the (a)
How many vedas are there
5
4
6
7
The Rigveda was composed about _______ years ago.
3500
2500
1,00,000
5,000
The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called (a)
(a) means “well-said”
These hymns are in praise of various ___________ or __________
(a)
Three gods are especially important:
Agni, the god of fire
Indra, a warrior God
Soma, a plant from which a special drink was prepared.
These hymns were composed by (a) .
Priests taught students to :
recite and memorise each syllable, word, and sentence
bit by bit, with great care
did not teach at all
Most of the hymns were composed, taught and learnt by ____
men
women
children
aliens
Some hymns were composed by women.
True
False
The Rigveda is in old or (a) Sanskrit
Is Vedic Sanskit different from the Sanskrit you learn in school these days.
True
False
Sanskrit is part of a family of languages known as (a)
Some Indian languages such as ____ belong to Indo-European family
Assamese
Gujarati
Hindi
Kashmiri
Sindhi
Many European languages such as ________ belong to Indo-European family
English
French
German
Greek
Italian and Spanish
Why are some Indian Languages and some Western languages are called a family?
because they originally had words in common.
they were spoken by the same people
they are spoken in the same continent
no one likes speaking them
What is sanskrit
an ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written.
a modern language spoken in India, from which many European languages are derived.
A rock group from India
A language spoken by more than 50% of Indians
Which of these European languages are Indo-European languages? (select all that apply)
English
Finnish
German
Albanian
These people spoke related languages that form the basis of a family of languages spoken by half of the current world population.
Indo-Europeans
Aryans
Anatolia
Hittites
Which of these languages are Indo-European languages? (select all that apply)
Nepali
Punjabi
Romany
Malayalam
Which of these languages are not Indo-European? (select all that apply)
Armenian
Basque
Urdu
Turkish
Take the words ‘matr’ (Sanskrit), ‘ma’ (Hindi) and ‘mother’ (English). show that these words have the same origin
True
False
The languages of north-east of India belong to the (a) family
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to the (a) family
The languages spoken in Jharkhand and parts of central India belong to the (a) family.
The Rigveda was recited and heard rather than read.
True
False
Rigveda was written down several centuries after it was first composed,
True
False
Historians
mainly use written records as their main sources of information
study the past
excavate artefacts at archaeological dig sites
never evaluate the validity of artefacts
Archaeologists
excavate artefacts at archaeological dig sites
evaluate the validity of primary and secondary sources
analyse artefacts from archaeological sites
excavate fossils
Some of the hymns in the Rigveda are in the form of (a) .
What was Vishvamitra like before he was a rishi?
A kind human man who won the favor of the gods
An evil monkey who enslaved humans
A power-hungry king who cursed and killed to get to his throne
A peacock who was transformed into a human to save the world
The dialogue in Rigveda is a part of one such hymn, a dialogue between a sage named ___________, and two rivers, (__________________) that were worshipped as ____________
Vishvamitra
Beas and Sutlej
goddesses
between all those who could speak
There are many prayers in the Rigveda for cattle, children (especially sons), and horses.
True
False
Horses were yoked to chariots that were used in battles, which were fought to capture cattle.
False
True
Most prayers in the Rigveda are for cattle, children and horses
cattle, children and elephant
Tiger, children and horses
cattle, children and horses
cattle, old men and horses
How horses, cattle, chariot and battles are depicted in Rigveda?
Burial Spots of Families : Some burial chambers have more than one ____________________, probably meaning that one chamber was used for many members of the ____________ family.
(a)
A (a) in the wall allowed the chamber to be used over and over again.
The burial sites were marked by (a) .
Battles : (a) Veda tells us about battles fought for land and cattle.
People met in assemblies and discussed about _____________ and _____________.
(a)
Ø Wealth obtained thereafter was distributed amongst the ______________, ________________ and_____________.
(a)
Rig Veda describes people according to their work, the priests who performed various _______________and the rajas who were ______________________.
(a)
Rajas were different during this period as they did not have __________________ , palaces or armies, nor did they collect _________________.
(a)
We also find mention of the ___________ who composed _______________.
(a)
Rig vedic hymns mention about ________________- or _____________ who spoke different ___________________.
(a)
Later on, the term ___________________ came to be used for the _______________________.
(a)
Some burial sites of the late Chalcolithic age and early Iron Age are marked by (a) .
____________, __________________, ____________________ and the southernmost parts of India are some places where such sites have been found.
(a)
Initially, the Rig Veda was not in written form, but was passed on (a) .
Knowledge passed on in this way is known as (a) .
The Vedic teachers took great care to teach students to pronounce words and memorise (a) correctly.
Scholars have discovered many similarities between Sanskrit and European languages such as Latin, ___________________ and ____________.
(a)
Historians came to the conclusion that Sanskrit belongs to the (a) group of languages.
Skeleton Studies : Study of the bone structure helps to differentiate between _________________ and _________________ skeletons.
(a)
The hip or the pelvic area of a woman is generally (a) than a man.
Special Burial at Inamgaon : We find burials dated back to ___________ and _______________ years ago.
(a)
Adults were generally buried in the (a) .
Special mention may be made of a man who was found buried in a large, four legged _________________ in the courtyard of a _________________roomed house.
(a)
Writing Evidences : First evidence of writing in _____________ was found _______________ years ago.
(a)
These writings were on ____________________ and were called ____________________ bones. However, the Chinese did not know the use of iron.
(a)
Sentinels : This term means _________________ and in context to the chapter it refers to the ____________________ put on burial sites so as to guard and spot these burial sites.
(a)
What is the language of the Vedas?
Pali
Urdu
Sanskrit
Prakrit
