EARLY RIG VEDIC PERIOD

Question 1

OLDEST VEDA?

Answer 1

RIGVEDA 3500 YEARS AGO.

Question 2

WHAT ARE SUKTAS?

Answer 2

SUKTAS OR WELL SAID ARE HYMNS FROM RIGVEDA.

Question 3

GODS FROM RIGVEDA?

Answer 3

1 AGNI (GOD OF FIRE
2 INDRA (WARRIOR GOD)
3 SOMA (PLANT FROM WHICH SPECIAL DRINK WAS PREPARED) etc.

Question 4

HYMS FROM RIGVEDA WERE COMPOSED BY?

Answer 4

RISHIS (SAGES).

Question 5

WERE HMYNS IN RIGVEDA COMPOSED BY MEN ONLY?

Answer 5

MOST OF HYMNS WERE COMPOSED, TAUGHT AND LEARNT BY MEN.
A FEW WERE COMPOSED BY WOMEN.

Question 6

RIGVEDA IS WRITTEN IN?(LANGUAGE)

Answer 6

OLD OR VEDIC SANSKRIT.

Question 7

WAS RIGVEDA READ DURING THE TIME WHEN IT WAS COMPOSED?

Answer 7

RIGVEDA WAS RECITED AND HEARD RATHER THAN READ.
IT WAS WRITTEN DOWN SEVERAL CENTURIES AFTER IT WAS FIRST COMPOSED, AND PRINTED LESS THAN 200 YEARS AGO.

Question 8

RIVERS MENTIONED IN RIGVEDA?

Answer 8

BEAS AND SUTLEJ WERE WORSHIPPED AS GODDESS (VISHWAMITRA- SAGE)
OTHER RIVERS - INDUS AND ITS TRIBUTARIES AND SARASWATI.
GANGA AND YAMUNA ARE ONLY NAMED ONCE

Question 9

WARS DURING EARLY VEDIC PERIOD WERE FOUGHT FOR?

Answer 9

1 TO CAPTURE CATTLE:- NOTE- HORSES AND CHARIOTS WERE USED.
2 LAND- IMPORTANT FOR PASTURE AND GROWING HARDY CROPS THAT RIPENED QUICKLY SUCH AS BARLEY.
3 WATER AND TO CAPTURE PEOPLE.

Question 10

WHAT DID EARLY VEDIC PEOPLE DO WITH THE WEALTH GAINED FROM WARS?

Answer 10

1 USED FOR PERFORMANCE OF YAJNAS OR SACRIFICES.
2 LEADERS KEPT SOME.
3 DISTRIBUTED SOME AMONG PRIESTS AND PEOPLE.

Question 11

DESCRIBE RAJAS OF EARLY VEDIC PERIOD?

Answer 11

1 THERE WERE NO REGULAR ARMIES.
2 THERE WERE ASSEMBLIES.
3 RAJAS DID NOT HAVE CAPITAL CITIES OR PALACES.
4 DID NOT COLLECT TAXES.
5 GENERALLY SONS DID NOT AUTOMATICALLY SUCCEED FATHER AS HEIRS.

Question 12

WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE OR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE OF EARLY VEDIC PERIOD?

Answer 12

1 JANA
2 VISH
PURU JANA OR VISH
BHARATA JANA OR VISH
YADU JANA OR VISH.

Question 13

WHO WERE ARYAS?

Answer 13

PEOPLE WHO COMPOSED HYMNS (EARLY VEDIC PERIOD) DESCRIBED THEMSELVES AS ARYAS.
THEY PERFORMED SACRIFICES.
RIGVEDA WAS BEING COMPOSED IN NORTHWEST OF THE SUBCONTINENT.

Question 14

WHO WERE DASAS OR DASYUS?

Answer 14

OPPONENTS OF ARYAS.
DASAS DID NOT PERFORM SACRIFICES AND PROBABLY SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
LATER WORD DASA CAME TO MEAN AS SLAVE.
NOTE:- PANIS WERE ALSO ENEMIES OF ARYAS.

Question 15

WHAT ARE SILENT SENTINELS IN ANCIENT TERMS?

Answer 15

MEGALITHIS (BIG STONES) ARE ALSO CALLED SILENT SENTINELS.

Question 16

MEGALITHS WERE USED TO?

Answer 16

MARK BURIAL SITES.

Question 17

THE PRACTICE OF ERECTING MEGALITHS BEGAN ABOUT?

Answer 17

3000 YEARS AGO.

Question 18

PRACTICE OF ERECTING MEGALITHS WAS PREVALENT IN?

Answer 18

THROUGHOUT THE DECCAN, SOUTH INDIA IN THE NORTHEAST AND KASHMIR.

Question 19

WHAT ARE CIST IN ANCIENT TERMS?

Answer 19

CIST IS A TYPE OF MEGALITH WITH A PORT HOLE WHICH COULD BE USED AS AN ENTRANCE.

Question 20

ARE MEGALITH BURIALS ALWAYS SEEN ON SURFACE?

Answer 20

SOME MEGALITHS CAN BE SEEN ON THE SURFACE, OTHER MEGALITH BURIALS ARE OFTEN UNDERGROUND.

Question 21

POTTERY OF EARLY VEDIC PERIOD OR RIG VEDIC PERIOD?

Answer 21

BLACK AND RED WARE POTTERY.

Question 22

COMMON FEATURES OF MEGALITHIC BURIALS? EARLY VEDIC PERIOD.

Answer 22

1 GENERALLY THE DEAD WERE BURIED WITH DISTINCTIVE POTS WHICH ARE CALLED BLACK AND RED WARE.
2 TOOLS AND WEAPONS OF IRON AND SOMETIMES SKELTONS OF HORSES, HORSE EQUIPMENT AND ORNAMENTS OF STONE AND GOLD.
NOTE:- IRON AND HORSES WHICH WAS ABSENT DURING HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION.

Question 23

ONE SKELETON WITH 33 GOLD BEADS, 2 STONE BEADS, 4 COPPER BANGLES AND ONE CONCH SHELL WAS FOUND FROM?

Answer 23

BRAHMAGIRI (KARNATAKA).

Question 24

WERE SOME BURIAL SPOTS MEANT FOR CERTAIN FAMILIES? MEGALITHIC BURIALS.

Answer 24

1 SOMETIMES MEGALITHS CONTAIN MORE THAN ONE SKELTON. THESE INDICATE THAT PEOPLE, PERHAPS BELONGING TO THE SAME FAMILY, WERE BURIED IN THE SAME PLACE THOUGH NOT AT THE SAME TIME.
2 STONE CIRCLES OR BOULDERS PLACED ON SURFACE SERVED AS SIGNPOSTS.
3 CISTS (PORT HOLES)- BODIES OF THOSE WHO DIED LATER BROUGHT INTO GRAVE THROUGH THIS.

Question 25

INAMGAON LOCATION? STATE AND RIVER.

Answer 25

ON RIVER GHOD - TRIBUTARY OF BHIMA WHICH IS TRIBUTARY OF KRISHNA.
MAHARASHTRA.

Question 26

SPECIAL BURIAL AT INAMGAON?

Answer 26

1 BURIED WITH HEAD TOWARDS NORTH.
2 SOMETIMES BURIAL WITHIN HOUSES.
3 VESSELS CONTAINING FOOD AND WATER ALONG WITH BODY.

Question 27

ONE MAN WAS FOUND BURIED IN A LARGE, FOUR LEGGED CLAY HAT IN THE COURTYARD OF A FIVE ROOMED HOUSE (ONE OF THE LARGEST HOUSES AT THE SITE), IN THE CENTRE OF THE SETTLEMENT. THIS HOUSE ALSO HAD A GRANARY. THE BODY WAS PLACED IN A CROSSED LEGGED POSITION. IDENTIFY THE PLACE?

Answer 27

INAMGAON.

Question 28

WHAT ARE ORACLE BONES?

Answer 28

BONES WITH WRITINGS ON THEM USED TO PREDICT FUTURE.
FIRST EVIDENCE OF WRITING IN CHINA.

Question 29

BEGINNING OF COMPOSITION OF VEDAS?

Answer 29

ABOUT 3500 YEARS AGO.

Question 30

BEGINNING OF BUILDING OF MEGALITHS?

Answer 30

ABOUT 3000 YEARS AGO.

Question 31

SETTLEMENT AT INAMGAON? TIMELINE

Answer 31

BETWEEN 3600 AND 2700 YEARS AGO.

Question 32

CHARAKA SAMITHA (MEDICINE) WRITTEN AROUND?

Answer 32

BY CHARAKA ABOUT 2000 YEARS AGO.