vedic period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (a)

The term ‘Jana’ occurs 275 times in the Rigveda. But Janapada is not mentioned. The term Rajya occurs only once.

Answer: (a)

Gautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. His first teacher was Alara Kalama who taught a form of meditation leading to an exalted form of absorption called "the state of no-thingness", a state without moral or cognitive dimension.

Gautama saw this was not going to solve suffering, and continued his search. The next teacher was Udraka Ramaputra who taught him meditative absorption leading to "the state of neither perception nor non-perception".

Again, Gautama realised this was not the state he was looking for. (Both Alara and Udraka are by some scholars considered to be Jain followers.)

Answer: (c)

The Aryans were the founder of Vedic culture. The Aryans entered India through the Khyber pass, around 1500 BC. They adopted the settled agricultural lifestyle of their predecessors and established small agrarian communities across the state of Punjab.

The Aryans are believed to have brought with them the horse, developed the Sanskrit language and made significant inroads into the religion and culture of that time.

Answer: (c)

The river Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda. The Vitasta is mentioned as one of the major rivers by the holy scriptures of the IndoAryans — the Rigveda.

It has been speculated that the Vitasta must have been one of the seven rivers (Sapta Sindhu) mentioned so many times in the Rigveda.

Answer: (c)