Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 21

Panihari takes its name from pani, water, and the songs belong to the daily walk to the well or the stepwell and back with pots on the head; their images are of the rope, the pulley, the pot and the long road, and they often carry a woman's complaint or…

The Pushkar fair is held at Pushkar in Ajmer district on the full moon of the month of Kartik, beside the Pushkar lake and the Brahma temple, and it is both a bathing fair and the state's most famous camel and cattle market.

Men of the Shekhawati region strap on a horse made of bamboo and cloth, dress in bright costume with a sword in hand and enact the tales of local bandits and heroes to the fife and the dhol, and the dance is a regular feature of wedding processions.

Pabuji was a Rathore hero of Kolu in the Jodhpur country who, in the folk account, died while defending the cows of Deval, a Charan woman, and he is worshipped above all by camel herders, who bring sick animals to his shrine.

Gogaji, worshipped across Rajasthan as the deity who protects against snakes, has his principal shrine at Gogamedi in Hanumangarh district, and the fair there is held in the month of Bhadrapad on Gogaji Navami.

A Bhopa of Pabuji unrolls the painted scroll called the phad and sings the epic of Pabuji through the night, accompanying himself on the ravanhatta, a bowed instrument of a half coconut or gourd with a bamboo neck, a skin face and a row of jingling bells.

People bitten by snakes are still brought to his shrines, his thread is tied by farmers, and the great Parbatsar cattle fair of Nagaur district is held in his name.

Women of the Kamad community perform Terah Taali seated on the ground as an act of devotion to Baba Ramdev, with thirteen small brass cymbals called manjiras tied to the wrists, elbows, waist and ankles and struck in rhythm, while the men of the troupe play the tandoora.

Rammat is the open-air folk theatre of Bikaner and Jaisalmer, performed around Holi on a raised platform with the nagara and the dholak, and its akharas are a part of the towns' Holi calendar.

Chand Baori stands at Abhaneri village in Dausa district and is attributed to King Chanda of the Nikumbh line in about the ninth century; it descends thirteen storeys and has some three thousand five hundred narrow steps laid in a double criss cross pattern, with the Harshat Mata temple beside…

The temple of Karni Mata at Deshnok, about thirty kilometres from Bikaner city, is famous for the rats that live in it and are regarded as sacred, and fairs are held there during the Navratras of Chaitra and of Ashwin.

The Rajasthan Union of 25 March 1948, the second stage, joined nine states of the south and east: Banswara, Bundi, Dungarpur, Jhalawar, Kishangarh, Kota, Pratapgarh, Shahpura and Tonk.

The phad of Devnarayanji, the deity of the Gurjars whose shrine stands at Malaseri Dungri in Asind of Bhilwara district, is the longest of the painted scrolls, and it is sung by Gurjar bhopas to the stringed jantar.

The inscription of 2013 is a serial property, which means several separate sites listed together under one name, and the Hill Forts of Rajasthan is made up of six forts: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambore, Amer, Jaisalmer and Gagron.

Gangaur is the worship of Gauri, that is Parvati, with Ishar, that is Shiva, and the name itself joins Gan for Shiva with Gaur for Gauri.

A Pichhwai is a large painting on cloth that is hung behind the image of Shrinathji in the temple, the word itself meaning that which hangs at the back, and it is changed according to the season and the festival being observed.

Jambhoji, born at Pipasar in Nagaur district, laid down this code, among whose rules are the bans on cutting green trees and on killing animals, and the sect has its main seat at Mukam near Nokha in Bikaner district.

The Elephant Festival is held at Jaipur around Holi, with decorated elephants in procession, and it is one of the tourism festivals promoted by the state.

The correct answer is A, Katariyasar in Bikaner district, the seat of the sect founded by Jasnathji, whose followers, the Siddhs, perform the agni nritya or fire dance on a bed of live coals to the beat of the drum, a performance that has become one of the signatures of…

The dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the founder of the Chishti order in India, is at Ajmer, and the Urs held there in the Islamic month of Rajab is the largest Muslim gathering in Rajasthan, attended by pilgrims of many faiths.