BUILDINGS, PAINTINGS AND BOOKS Flashcards
INSCRIPTION ON IRON PILLAR AT MEHRAULI, DELHI MENTIONS A RULER NAME?
CHANDRA, WHO PROBABLY BELONGED TO THE GUPTA DYNASTY.
WHAT IS RELIC CASKET?
WHAT DOES IT CONTAINS?
IT IS A SMALL BOX PLACED AT THE CENTRE OR HEART OF THE STUPA.
THIS MAY CONTAIN BODILY REMAINS (SUCH AS TEETH, BONE OR ASHES) OF THE BUDDHA AND HIS FOLLOWERS OR THINGS THEY USED AS WELL AS PRECIOUS STONES AND COINS.
THIS BOX WAS COVERED WITH EARTH.
LATER A LAYER OF MUD BRICK OR BAKED BRICK WAS ADDED ON TOP.
THE PATH AROUND STUPA IS CALLED?
PRADAKSHINA PATHA.
DEVOTEES WALKED AROUND STUPA IN WHICH DIRECTION?
CLOCKWISE DIRECTION.
TEMPLE AT BHITARGAON LOCATION?
IN UTTAR PRADESH.
A TOWER KNOWN AS THE SHIKHARA WAS BUILT ON TOP OF THE GARBHAGRIHA.
THIS TEMPLE WAS BUILT AROUND 1500 YEARS AGO AND WAS MADE OF BAKED BRICK AND STONE.
MONOLITHIC TEMPLES ARE FOUND AT?
MAHABALIPURAM.
CARVED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE OF STONE KNOWN AS MONOLITHS.
CUTTERS HAD TO WORK FROM TOP DOWNWARDS.
SILAPPADIKARAM WAS COMPOSED BY?
ILANGO ADIGAL AROUND 1800 YEARS AGO.
SILAPPADIKARAM IS A STORY OF?
STORY OF A MERCHANT NAMED KOVALAN WHO LIVED IN PUHAR AND FELL IN LOVE WITH A COURTESAN NAMED MADHAVI, NEGLECTING HIS WIFE KANNAGI.
LATER HE AND KANNAGI LEFT PUHAR AND WENT TO MADURAI WHERE HE WAS WRONGLY ACCUSED OF THEFT BY THE COURT JEWELLER OF THE PANDYA KING.
THE KING SENTENCED KOVALAN TO DEATH.
KANNAGI DESTROYED THE ENTIRE CITY OF MADURAI.
MANIMEKALAI WAS COMPOSED BY?
SITTALAI SATTANAR AROUND 1400 YEARS AGO.
THIS DESCRIBES THE STORY OF THE DAUGHTER OF KOVALAN AND MADHAVI.
MEGHADUTA IS WRITTEN BY?
BEST KNOWN POEM OF KALIDASA.
MONSOON CLOUD IS IMAGINED TO BE A MESSENGER BETWEEN LOVERS WHO ARE SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER.
LANGUAGE IN WHICH PURANAS WERE WRITTEN AND WHO CAN HEAR THEM?
PURANAS WERE WRITTEN IN SIMPLE SANSKRIT VERSE AND WERE MEANT TO BE HEARD BY EVERYBODY, INCLUDING WOMEN AND SHUDRAS.
WHY WAS MAHABHARATA FOUGHT?
THIS WAS A WAR TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE THRONE OF THE KURUS AND THEIR CAPITAL, HASTINAPURA.
PURANAS AND MAHABHARATA ARE COMPILED BY?
VED VYASA.
NOTE* BHAGAVAD GITA IS ALSO INCLUDED IN MAHABHARATA.
CAPITAL OF KOSALA?
AYODHYA.
RAMAYANA WAS WRITTEN BY?
VALMIKI IS RECOGNIZED AS THE AUTHOR OF SANSKRIT RAMAYANA.
