Observe the image and answer the following question.
Which painting by Raja Ravi Varma is in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Krishna as envoy
Option (1) Krishna as envoy — Correct. The painting shown is Ravi Varma’s Krishna as envoy, painted in his academic realism.
Option (2) Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean — Incorrect. This Puranic scene shows Rama standing to shoot his fiery arrow into the ocean. It is not the painting shown.
Option (3) Release of Ahalya — Incorrect. Ravi Varma also painted this scene from the Ramayana, but it is not the painting shown.
Option (4) Sita in Ashoka Grove — Incorrect. This is another Ramayana scene by Ravi Varma. It is not the painting shown.
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):
“Raja Ravi Varma, Krishna as envoy, 1906. NGMA, New Delhi, India” “Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean … Varma also painted Release of Ahalya, Rama Breaking the Sacred Bow of Siva before his Marriage to Sita, Rama, Sita and Laksmana Crossing the Saryu, Ravana abducting Sita and Opposed by Jatayu, Sita in Ashoka Grove, The Coronation of Rama, etc.” |
