Keshav Das wrote the Kavipriya in honour of Rai Parbin. In it, what does the nayika persuade the nayaka not to do?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Leave her and proceed on a journey
Option (1) Leave her and proceed on a journey — Correct. The nayika prevails upon the nayaka not to leave her and proceed on a journey.
Option (2) Attend festivals without her — Incorrect. Festivals come in as part of the daily life in different seasons that the poem illustrates, not as her plea.
Option (3) Forget their love — Incorrect. The work is a tale of love, but her plea is about his journey, not about forgetting love.
Option (4) Join the celebrations in Orchha — Incorrect. Orchha is the home of Rai Parbin, for whom the work was written, not part of the plea.
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.” |