vedic period MCQ set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Henotheism or kathenotheism has also been described as the worship of Nature leading up to Nature’s God. The chief deities of the earlier books owe their origin to the personification of natural phenomena.

Abstract deities like Dhatri, the Estabilisher; Vidhatri, the Ordainer; Visvakarman, the All-Creating, and Prajapati, the Lord of Creatures, Sraddha, Faith; Manyu, Wrath, make their appearance at a later stage. Besides the higher Gods, lauded by priests, we have reference to others whose worship was not countenanced in orthodox circles. The Vedas were authorless, not written but “heard” and remembered and passed down by the Brahmins to other brahmins. As such, they were considered absolute authority, infallible truth.

Furthermore, they were, and continue to be, considered by the Hindu tradition to be eternal, having always existed and forever existing, and thus were held not only to be perfect, but also to be, essentially, religious and social imperatives, rules to be followed absolutely.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

During the Vedic period Sabha was a body of village elders and Samiti was a general assembly in which all the members of the community participated. Sabha and Samiti are depicted as the two daughters of Prajapati mentioned in Atharvaveda.

Answer: (a)

The word Aghanya is referred to as the cow in many mantras of Vedas. The meaning of this word means, “not to be killed under any circumstances”.

Answer: (a)

To understand the knowledge of the Vedas in a proper and systematic manner, the Vedangas were created, like,

• Shiksha (to pronounce prayers correctly),
• Kalpa (the rules to perform sacrifice in a proper manner),
• Vyakaran (graer),
• Nirukta (etymology of words in the Vedas),
• Chanda (to musical rules of ecitation),
• Jyotish (proper time to perform sacrifices).
• Shaddarshanas

To understand the philosophical content of Vedas, the Shad-darshanas were created, like,

• Nyaya (of Gautam, explaining logic),
• Sankhya (of Kapil, explaining the unity of soul with God),
• Yog (of Patanjali),
• Vaisheshik (Kanand, regarding atoms),
• Purva-mimasa (Jaimini, Vedic rituals),
• Uttar-mimasa (Badaraya, structure of universe, spiritualism) etc.

Answer: (a)