Keshav Das wrote the Kavipriya in honour of Rai Parbin. What does the tenth chapter of this work describe?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → The 12 months of the year
Option (1) The emotive states of lovers, Radha and Krishna — Incorrect. This is the subject of the Rasikapriya, another work of Keshav Das.
Option (2) The classification of heroes and heroines — Incorrect. This is the subject of Bhanu Datta’s Rasamanjari.
Option (3) The pictorial forms of ragas and raginis — Incorrect. These are Ragamala paintings, not a chapter of a poem.
Option (4) The 12 months of the year — Correct. The tenth chapter, titled Baramasa, describes the 12 months.
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): “Themes of Paintings – An Overview …Kavipriya, another poetic work by Keshav Das, was written in the honour of Rai Parbin, a celebrated courtesan of Orchha. It is a tale of love and its tenth chapter evocatively titled Baramasa engages with the most enduring climactic description of the 12 months of the year. While illustrating the daily life of people in different seasons and alluding to festivals falling therein, Keshav Das describes how the nayika prevails upon the nayaka not to leave her and proceed on a journey.” |