Books And Authors

Question 1

Who wrote Nuti siphir and laila Majnu

Answer 1

Amir Khusrau.

He is the first Urdu author.

Question 2

Who wrote deval Rani Kazhalkhan ?

Answer 2

Amir khusrow

Question 3

Silappadikaram..?

Answer 3

Elango adigal

Question 4

Who wrote manimegalai

Answer 4

Sattalai sattanar

Question 5

Who wrote tolkapiyam ?

Answer 5

Only book that survived after second assembly

Question 6

Who wrote malkanakku ?

Answer 6

Survived after 3rd assembly
18books .these are major works.
Further divided into ethuthogai and pattupattu..

Talks about political exploits of Pandya rulers

Question 7

Who wrote kilkanakku ?

Answer 7

18books. These are books on ethics morality code of conduct

Question 8

In which literature , 16mahajanapadas were first mentioned ?

Answer 8

Jain literature.
It also talks about other rivals also.
It’s in Prakrit launguage

Question 9

Agama and Anga , upanga are books of

Answer 9

Jain literature

Question 10

Prakirna , mulasutra , chedaustra are books of ?

Answer 10

Jain literature

Question 11

Bhagwati sutra belongs to

Answer 11

Jain literature

Question 12

Suttapitaka , Vinaya pitaka , abhidhamma pithaka ?

Answer 12

Written in Pali Buddhist books,

Belongs to cononical literature

Question 13

Books of non canonical literature ?

Answer 13

Written in both and Sanskrit .
Budhacharitha
Dipavamsha
Mahavastu 
Lalithvistar

Question 14

Mahavastu belongs to

Answer 14

Theravada Buddhism.

In Pali language.

Question 15

Lalithvistar ? Is what

Answer 15

Sanskrit.

Holy text of Mahayana Buddhism.

Question 16

What is therigatha?

Answer 16

It’s in Pali and Sanskrit..

Written by women and attributed to women

Question 17

What is jatakakatha ?

Answer 17

In both Pali and Sanskrit .
These are mythological stories.
Related to previous life’s of Buddha.

Question 18

What are other Janaka tales ?

Answer 18

Virupandita jataka
Ruru jataka.
Sibi jataka
Gandanta jataka

Question 19

Magadhi and arthamagadhi formed by deviating from

Answer 19

Prakrit .

Question 20

Who wrote Mudrarakshahsa

Answer 20

Vishakadatta.
Theme fight between mauryas and nandas..

Sanskrit

Question 21

Who wrote mrichaktika in Sanskrits

Answer 21

Shudraka

Satire on society

Question 22

Who wrote Budhacharitha

Answer 22

In Sanskrit.
Aswagosha.
Biography of budha

Question 23

Who wrote

Malvikagnimitram , Kumarasambhavam , Raghu vamsham.

Answer 23

Kalidas

Question 24

Who wrote vikramourvashi

Answer 24

By kalidasa.

Love story of Purva and Urvashi

Question 25

Who wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam?

Answer 25

Love story between Dushyant and Shakuntala, | Kalidasa wrote

Question 26

Who wrote Meghdhutam ?

Answer 26

Poetry. By kalidasa, Sending msgs through clouds

Question 27

Who wrote ritusamhara ?

Answer 27

By kalidasa . | Medley of seasons

Question 28

Who wrote devichandragupta ?

Answer 28

Biography of chandragupta2. Kalidasa were part of Chandragupta 2ruler

Question 29

Who wrote harscharitha?

Answer 29

Bio of harshvardhana . | Bhanubatta wrote it

Question 30

Who wrote uttamcharitha ?

Answer 30

BhavBhuti. | Life after lord ram

Question 31

Who wrote astadhyaayi ?

Answer 31

Panini. | Sanskrit grammer

Question 32

Who wrote Mahabhasyu?

Answer 32

Patanjali . Sanksrit grammar It’s a commentary on paninis astadyayis.

Question 33

Who wrote amarakosha ?

Answer 33

By amarasinha . Sanskrit. Book of vocab

Question 34

Who wrote charak samhita?

Answer 34

Charaka

Question 35

Who wrote Sushruta samhitha?

Answer 35

Book of surgery.. | 1st book which mentions about plastic surgery

Question 36

Who wrote Rasanava .

Answer 36

By Nagarjuna, Talks about Alchemy(turning into gold). And metallurgy.

Question 37

Who wrote Aryabhatium?

Answer 37

Aryabhatta . | Astronomy.

Question 38

Who wrote Brihatsamhita ?

Answer 38

Cloud formation. | By Varahmihira

Question 39

Who wrote Bhrahma Gupta siddantika ?

Answer 39

Bharmgupta . | Regarding heliocentric theory. That planets revolve around sun.

Question 40

Who wrote Lilavati and Arthgranti ?

Answer 40

Bhaskaracharya. | Maths books

Question 41

Puranas can be divided into 4types ?

Answer 41

Sarga Pratisarga Manvantara Vamsanucharitha

Question 42

Who is Called as Adhvaryu

Answer 42

Expert of yahurveda

Question 43

What is Gandarvveda !

Answer 43

Last part of Samveda. | It’s a rule book of music

Question 44

Atharva Veda written by

Answer 44

Atharva and angira Rishi…

Question 45

How many upanishads are considered as sacred in number

Answer 45

108.

Question 46

Satyameva Jaya the mentioned in ?

Answer 46

Mandakopanishad

Question 47

Athidhi devobhava mentioned in

Answer 47

Katopanishad

Question 48

What are Brahmanas?..

Answer 48

First and foremost explanatory books on vedas

Question 49

What are the extended texts of Veda?

Answer 49

Brahmanas Aranyakas Upanishads

Question 50

Who is known as HotrA?

Answer 50

Expert of rigveda

Question 51

What is Abugida system of writing

Answer 51

An abugida is a writing system that is neither a syllabic nor alphabetic script, but somewhere in between. It has sequences of consonants and vowels that . All Indian launguages follow Abudgida system of writing

Question 52

Mention launguage and it’s Sanskrit ?

Answer 52

``` Hindi,Sanskrit,bhojpuri————-Devanagari Punjabi ————————————Gurmukhi. Tamil——————————-valthelottu Malayalam———————-manipravalam Kannada —————————kadambam Telugu —————————Telugu script Kashmir —————————sharada Urdu —————————Persia, Parsi,Nastaliq Marathi —————————Modi script Bengali —————————Bengali script Odishi —————————oshishi script ```

Question 53

Which are the oldest scripts of India

Answer 53

Brahmi and kharosthi