Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is a folio from which manuscript?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Divan-i Hafiz
Option (1) Diwan of Amir Shahi — Incorrect. The folio from this manuscript is A Prince and a Hermit (1595), not this flood scene.
Option (2) Harivamsa — Incorrect. The dispersed Harivamsa Purana gave Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan, a scene of Krishna sheltering a village.
Option (3) Divan-i Hafiz — Correct. The painting is Noah’s Ark, from a dispersed Divan-i Hafiz painted manuscript of 1590.
Option (4) Baburnama — Incorrect. A Baburnama painting in the chapter is Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior by Bhure, not this ark.
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): “Noah’s Ark Noah’s Ark, from a dispersed Divan-i Hafiz painted manuscript of 1590, is an excellent painting in subdued colour palette and has been ascribed to Miskin, one of the masters at Akbar’s imperial atelier. Prophet Noah is in the ark, which is carrying animals in pairs so that they may continue to flourish after the threatening flood sent by God to punish human beings for their sins. In the painting, the sons of Noah are in the act of throwing Iblis, the devil, who had come to destroy the ark.”
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