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Manjusha art of Bihar is also known by which other name?

  1. A.Snake painting
  2. B.Lotus painting
  3. C.Tree of life painting
  4. D.Sun painting

Correct answer

A. Snake painting

Explanation

The correct answer is A, snake painting. Manjusha is called snake painting because the serpent of the Bishahari legend is its ruling motif: snakes fill the panels, and the borders carry a continuous wavy line that reads as a serpent, one of the border patterns being named lahariya, the wave. The story itself is of Bihula, who brings her husband back to life after a snake bite, and the goddess Bishahari, so the serpent is in the subject as much as in the ornament.

Option B, lotus painting, would suit the kohbar composition of Madhubani, where the lotus is the central symbol of the marriage chamber. Option C, the tree of life, is a motif of Warli and of textile work rather than a name for Manjusha. Option D, sun painting, has no basis in either tradition. The three colours of Manjusha, pink, green and yellow, are the other detail regularly asked with this one.

Read the full article: Madhubani, Manjusha and Other Art Forms of Bihar: Styles and Facts

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Q1.BiharEasy

Madhubani painting belongs to which region of Bihar?

  1. A.Anga, around Bhagalpur
  2. B.Mithila, in the north
  3. C.Magadh, around Gaya
  4. D.Bhojpur, in the west
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Correct answer: B. Mithila, in the north

Madhubani painting is also called Mithila painting because it grew in the Mithila region of northern Bihar, chiefly in the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga, and the form takes its common name from the first of these districts.

Q2.BiharMedium

Manjusha art, which narrates the legend of Bihula and Bishahari, belongs to which district of Bihar?

  1. A.Madhubani
  2. B.Bhagalpur
  3. C.Gaya
  4. D.Patna
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Correct answer: B. Bhagalpur

Manjusha art belongs to Bhagalpur and the Angika-speaking country around it. The paintings are made on the manjusha, a temple-shaped box built of bamboo strips and jute paper, which is carried in procession during the Bihula-Bishahari festival of the rainy season, and the panels tell the story of Bihula and…

Q4.BiharMedium

In Mithila tradition, the kohbar ghar on whose wall the painting is made is

  1. A.the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple
  2. B.the kitchen of the house
  3. C.the cattle shed
  4. D.the village shrine
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Correct answer: A. the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple

The kohbar ghar is the room in which the bride and bridegroom are brought together after the wedding, and its wall carries the kohbar painting, a composition of the lotus with its ring of leaves, the bamboo grove, fish, parrots and the sun and moon, all of them symbols of…

Q5.BiharHard

Tikuli art of Patna originally decorated which object?

  1. A.Earthen pottery
  2. B.The bindi worn on the forehead
  3. C.Temple doors
  4. D.Palm leaf manuscripts
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Correct answer: B. The bindi worn on the forehead

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.