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Who wrote Nuti siphir and laila Majnu

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Amir Khusrau.

He is the first Urdu author.

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Who wrote deval Rani Kazhalkhan ?

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Amir khusrow

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Silappadikaram..?

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Elango adigal

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Who wrote manimegalai

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Sattalai sattanar

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Who wrote tolkapiyam ?

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Only book that survived after second assembly

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Who wrote malkanakku ?

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Survived after 3rd assembly
18books .these are major works.
Further divided into ethuthogai and pattupattu..

Talks about political exploits of Pandya rulers

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Who wrote kilkanakku ?

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18books. These are books on ethics morality code of conduct

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In which literature , 16mahajanapadas were first mentioned ?

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Jain literature.
It also talks about other rivals also.
It’s in Prakrit launguage

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Agama and Anga , upanga are books of

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Jain literature

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Prakirna , mulasutra , chedaustra are books of ?

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Jain literature

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11
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Bhagwati sutra belongs to

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Jain literature

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Suttapitaka , Vinaya pitaka , abhidhamma pithaka ?

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Written in Pali Buddhist books,

Belongs to cononical literature

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Books of non canonical literature ?

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Written in both and Sanskrit .
Budhacharitha
Dipavamsha
Mahavastu 
Lalithvistar
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14
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Mahavastu belongs to

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Theravada Buddhism.

In Pali language.

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Lalithvistar ? Is what

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Sanskrit.

Holy text of Mahayana Buddhism.

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16
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What is therigatha?

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It’s in Pali and Sanskrit..

Written by women and attributed to women

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17
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What is jatakakatha ?

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In both Pali and Sanskrit .
These are mythological stories.
Related to previous life’s of Buddha.

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18
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What are other Janaka tales ?

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Virupandita jataka
Ruru jataka.
Sibi jataka
Gandanta jataka

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Magadhi and arthamagadhi formed by deviating from

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Prakrit .

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20
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Who wrote Mudrarakshahsa

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Vishakadatta.
Theme fight between mauryas and nandas..

Sanskrit

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21
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Who wrote mrichaktika in Sanskrits

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Shudraka

Satire on society

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Who wrote Budhacharitha

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In Sanskrit.
Aswagosha.
Biography of budha

23
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Who wrote

Malvikagnimitram , Kumarasambhavam , Raghu vamsham.

24
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Who wrote vikramourvashi

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By kalidasa.

Love story of Purva and Urvashi

25
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Who wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam?

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Love story between Dushyant and Shakuntala,

Kalidasa wrote

26
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Who wrote Meghdhutam ?

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Poetry.
By kalidasa,
Sending msgs through clouds

27
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Who wrote ritusamhara ?

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By kalidasa .

Medley of seasons

28
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Who wrote devichandragupta ?

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Biography of chandragupta2.

Kalidasa were part of Chandragupta 2ruler

29
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Who wrote harscharitha?

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Bio of harshvardhana .

Bhanubatta wrote it

30
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Who wrote uttamcharitha ?

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BhavBhuti.

Life after lord ram

31
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Who wrote astadhyaayi ?

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Panini.

Sanskrit grammer

32
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Who wrote Mahabhasyu?

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Patanjali .
Sanksrit grammar
It’s a commentary on paninis astadyayis.

33
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Who wrote amarakosha ?

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By amarasinha .
Sanskrit.
Book of vocab

34
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Who wrote charak samhita?

35
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Who wrote Sushruta samhitha?

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Book of surgery..

1st book which mentions about plastic surgery

36
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Who wrote Rasanava .

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By Nagarjuna,
Talks about Alchemy(turning into gold).
And metallurgy.

37
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Who wrote Aryabhatium?

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Aryabhatta .

Astronomy.

38
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Who wrote Brihatsamhita ?

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Cloud formation.

By Varahmihira

39
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Who wrote Bhrahma Gupta siddantika ?

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Bharmgupta .

Regarding heliocentric theory. That planets revolve around sun.

40
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Who wrote Lilavati and Arthgranti ?

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Bhaskaracharya.

Maths books

41
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Puranas can be divided into 4types ?

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Sarga
Pratisarga
Manvantara
Vamsanucharitha

42
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Who is Called as Adhvaryu

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Expert of yahurveda

43
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What is Gandarvveda !

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Last part of Samveda.

It’s a rule book of music

44
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Atharva Veda written by

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Atharva and angira Rishi…

45
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How many upanishads are considered as sacred in number

46
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Satyameva Jaya the mentioned in ?

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Mandakopanishad

47
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Athidhi devobhava mentioned in

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Katopanishad

48
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What are Brahmanas?..

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First and foremost explanatory books on vedas

49
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What are the extended texts of Veda?

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Brahmanas
Aranyakas
Upanishads

50
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Who is known as HotrA?

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Expert of rigveda

51
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What is Abugida system of writing

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An abugida is a writing system that is neither a syllabic nor alphabetic script, but somewhere in between. It has sequences of consonants and vowels that .

All Indian launguages follow Abudgida system of writing

52
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Mention launguage and it’s Sanskrit ?

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Hindi,Sanskrit,bhojpuri————-Devanagari 
Punjabi ————————————Gurmukhi.
Tamil——————————-valthelottu
Malayalam———————-manipravalam
Kannada —————————kadambam
Telugu —————————Telugu script
Kashmir —————————sharada
Urdu —————————Persia, Parsi,Nastaliq 
Marathi —————————Modi script
Bengali —————————Bengali script
Odishi —————————oshishi script
53
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Which are the oldest scripts of India

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Brahmi and kharosthi

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