A seventeenth-century Bijapur painting has a Yogini as its theme. Consider the following statements about it:
(A) The Yogini is preoccupied with a myna bird as if in conversation.
(B) Exquisite flora surrounds her body in an exquisite landscape.
(C) The attitude of a Yogini was usual in practice.
(D) The Yogini is shown seated on a diwan.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Two
(A) The Yogini is preoccupied with a myna bird as if in conversation. — Correct. She seems to talk with a myna bird.
(B) Exquisite flora surrounds her body in an exquisite landscape. — Correct. Her body is set among exquisite flora in the landscape.
(C) The attitude of a Yogini was usual in practice. — Incorrect. Such an attitude was not usual, and so it was extraordinary.
(D) The Yogini is shown seated on a diwan. — Incorrect. She is a long standing figure. Sitting on a diwan is how Muhammad Qutb Shah of Golconda is 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): “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. But such an attitude was not usual, and therefore, extraordinary in practice. … It is to be noted that the artist prefers a vertical composition, where the long standing figure of the Yogini is complimented by a group of white structures right at the top, as a tapering, visual note. The Yogini is preoccupied with a myna bird as if in conversation. … The long scarves swirl in rhythmic circle around her body, which has exquisite flora surrounding it in exquisite landscape.”
Yogini, Bijapur, seventeenth century, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland |
