Art & Culture Mixed Quiz: Set 56

The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh stands in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the bank of the Betwa river. Built around the early sixth century, it is one of the earliest Hindu temples in north India and is dedicated to Vishnu.

The Sadya is the grand vegetarian meal of Kerala, laid out on a fresh banana leaf in a fixed order of pickles, thorans, avial, sambar, rice and finally payasam, and it is eaten above all at the Onam harvest festival.

Only the first pair is correct: Chaliha Sahib is a festival of the Sindhi community. During Chaliha, Sindhis observe forty days of fasting and prayer, usually in July and August, in honour of Jhulelal, the patron deity of Sindhis, ending with thanksgiving at a river or other water body.

Sant Tukaram was a Varkari poet of the seventeenth century who composed abhangs for Vithoba of Pandharpur and lived in Dehu near Pune, in the years when Shivaji was building the Maratha state.

Apabhramsha was a literary language that took recognisable shape by about the sixth century, formed from regional speech mixed with the Prakrits and Sanskrit.

Mature Harappan potters used the fast wheel and fired their pots well, producing a sturdy red ware on which they painted in black over a red slip.

Puthukkuli shawls come from Tamil Nadu, but Sujni embroidery belongs to Bihar and Uppada Jamdani saris to Andhra Pradesh.

Aripan, also written aripana, is drawn with a paste of ground rice on the floor of the courtyard, the place of worship and the marriage pavilion.

. Hariti was a child-eating yakshi whom the Buddha converted into a protector of children and a benevolent mother figure.

Charbagh means four gardens, and the plan is a walled square or rectangle cut into four equal quarters by two axes that meet at the centre, where a tank, a platform or a tomb is placed.

The huge open-air rock relief at Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) in Tamil Nadu, known as the Descent of the Ganga or Arjuna's Penance, shows the river coming down from heaven to the earth.

The correct answer is A, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the sixteenth century Bengali saint whose movement is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism after Gauda, the old name of Bengal; its philosophy of Achintya Bheda Abheda holds the soul to be inconceivably both different from and identical with God, and its practice is the congregational…

Of the three, only Arasavalli is known for a Sun temple. Arasavalli, near Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh, has the Suryanarayana Swamy temple, one of the few living Sun temples in India; it is said to date back to the Eastern Ganga kings, and on certain days the morning rays fall…

Perini Shiva Thandavam is a vigorous warrior dance of Telangana, performed by men in praise of Lord Shiva. It flourished under the Kakatiya kings of Warangal, whose soldiers danced it before going to battle.

The NCSM is an autonomous society of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was formed in 1978 to take over the science museums then run by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and its headquarters is in Kolkata.

Bismillah Khan played the shehnai, a double reed wind instrument long associated with weddings, temple processions and auspicious beginnings in north India, and he is credited with carrying it from ceremonial use onto the classical concert stage.

In the Chola Nataraja it is the raised left leg, in the bhujangatrasita pose, that stands for tirobhava, kicking away the veil of illusion from the devotee's mind.

In October 2023 UNESCO added Gwalior to its Creative Cities Network as a City of Music.

Dum pukht belongs to the Awadhi kitchen of Lucknow, where meat, rice and spices are sealed inside a heavy pot with dough and left on a low fire so that the food cooks in its own steam.

The round drum below the lions of the Sarnath capital carries an elephant, a bull, a horse and a lion; there is no deer.