Jyotisar in Kurukshetra is traditionally associated with which event?
- A.The coronation of Harshavardhana
- B.The delivery of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna to Arjuna
- C.The composition of the Rigveda
- D.The Battle of the Ten Kings
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the delivery of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna to Arjuna. Jyotisar, a short distance from the town of Kurukshetra, is held by tradition to be the spot where Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna before the Mahabharata war, and an old banyan tree there is shown as a witness to it. Gita Jayanti is celebrated at Kurukshetra every year, and the other great sites of the town are Brahma Sarovar, Sannihit Sarovar and the Sthaneshwar Mahadev temple at Thanesar.
Option A is wrong because Harshavardhana came to the throne at Thanesar in 606, a historical event of a different age and a different place in the same district. Option C is wrong because the Rigveda was composed in the land of the Sapta Sindhu, to the north and west, and no single spot is named for it. Option D, the Battle of the Ten Kings, was fought on the Parushni, the modern Ravi, in Punjab, and should not be confused with the Mahabharata war fought on the Kurukshetra plain.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Vedic Aryans lived in the area called Sapt-Sindhu, which means area drained by seven rivers. One of the rivers among the seven is Jhelum. What was its ancient name?
- A.Askini
- B.Parushni
- C.Vipash
- D.Vitasta
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The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.
Read the full explanation →The earliest occurrence of the mantra famous as Gayatri Mantra is found in which of the following texts?
- A.Bhagavad Gita
- B.Atharva Veda
- C.Rig Veda
- D.Manusmriti
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The Gayatri Mantra first appears in the third mandala of the Rigveda and is ascribed to the sage Vishvamitra. It is addressed to Savitr, the sun, and it is composed in the Gayatri metre, from which it takes its popular name.
Read the full explanation →Satapatha Brahmana and Taittiriya Brahmana are the Brahmana texts of ______
- A.Samaveda
- B.Atharvaveda
- C.Rigveda
- D.Yajurveda
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The Shatapatha Brahmana belongs to the Shukla or White Yajurveda and the Taittiriya Brahmana to the Krishna or Black Yajurveda, so both are Brahmana texts of the Yajurveda.
Read the full explanation →Which of the three Gods were especially important in the Rigvedic period?
- A.Rudra, Vishnu and Indra
- B.Agni, Indra and Soma
- C.Indra, Varun and Rudra
- D.Agni, Indra and Vishnu
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These three receive the largest number of hymns in the Rigveda. Indra, the war god and breaker of forts, has the greatest number; Agni, the fire that carries the offering to the gods, comes next; and Soma, both a plant and a god, has the whole of the ninth mandala…
Read the full explanation →The Harappan site of Rakhigarhi is located in which district of Haryana?
- A.Fatehabad
- B.Hisar
- C.Rohtak
- D.Bhiwani
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Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district and covers the land of two villages, Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur, on a dried channel of the Drishadvati, today called the Chautang.
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