Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Ancient India: Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) Empty seat

(i) It signified strength and wisdom

(b) Sushruta Samhitas

(ii) Meditation of the Buddha

(c) Elephants

(iii) Book on Sanskrit grammar

(d) Ashtadhyayi

(iv) Book on medicine

Options:

 (a)- ii, (b)-iv , (c)- iii, (d)- i

 (a)- ii, (b)-iv , (c)- i, (d)- iii

 (a)- iii, (b)-iv , (c)- i, (d)- ii

 (a)- ii, (b)-i, (c)- iv, (d)- iii

Correct Answer:

 (a)- ii, (b)-iv , (c)- i, (d)- iii

Explanation:

The empty seat was meant to indicate the meditation of the Buddha.

In Buddhist Art animals were often used as symbols of human attributes. Elephants, for example, were depicted to signify strength and wisdom.

c. 100 CE: Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas, works on medicine (in Sanskrit)

c. 500 BCE: Ashtadhyayi of Panini, a work on Sanskrit grammar