In the Deccani painting Yogini from Bijapur, with what is the Yogini preoccupied?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A myna bird
Option (1) A myna bird — Correct. The Yogini is shown with a myna bird, as if she is talking to it.
Option (2) A white hawk — Incorrect. The white hawk is at the centre of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II hawking, another Bijapur painting.
Option (3) A peacock — Incorrect. Peacocks fill one storey of The Throne of Prosperity in the Nujum al-Ulum, not the Yogini painting.
Option (4) A flying crane — Incorrect. Flying cranes are seen in Composite Horse from Golconda and behind the sultan in the hawking painting.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bijapur School of Painting …The theme of another Deccani painting is Yogini — one who believes in yoga, leads a disciplined life of physical and emotional training, pursues spiritual and intellectual explorations, and is famous for renunciation of worldly attachments. … The Yogini is preoccupied with a myna bird as if in conversation. The Yogini is adorned with jewellery and her hair bun elongates her visual presence.”
“Yogini, Bijapur, seventeenth century, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland” |
