Panini wrote a text on Sanskrit grammar in 500 BCE. Which of the following texts is it?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The critical Mahabharata project began in 1919. b. It took a team of Sanskrit scholars 47 years to compile the critical Mahabharata. c. The critical Mahabharata has over 13000 pages.

Which of the following texts contained rules about the ideal 'occupations' of the four categories or varnas?

Which of the following contain(s) a list of successive generations of teachers and students, many of whom were designated by metronymics?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Sanskrit texts use the term Kula for identifying the lineage. b. Matriliny is the term used when descent is traced through the mother. c. The Kurus were the lineage dominating one of the Janapadas and the Pandavas belonged to this lineage.

Several of the inscriptions of Satavahanas have been recovered, which allow historians to trace family ties. Which of the following statements based on such inscriptions is/are correct?

a. The Satavahana rulers were polygynous. b. The Satavahana rulers were identified through names derived from that of the mother. c. The succession to the throne in Satavahanas was generally matrilineal.

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the 'Sutta Pittaka'?

a. It is a Brahiminical text. b. It suggests that originally, all beings lived in an idyllic state of peace, taking from nature only what they needed for each meal. c. It suggests that all humans are children of Brahma and have different status according to their birth.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Matanga Jataka is a Pali text, where the bodhisatta (the Buddha in a previous birth) is identified as a chandala. b. The Manusmṛti laid down the 'duties' of the Chandalas. c. Upon examination by historians, the depictions about lives of Chandalas in non-Brahiminical texts correspond with those in the Brahmanical texts.

Which of the following practices was the central theme of characters in Mahabharata?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The Tamilakam chiefs were patrons of bards and poets who sang their praise. b. The Tamil Sangam anthologies often illuminate the ills that arose as a result of the social and economic differences between rich and poor. c. The Purananuru is one of the anthologies of poems of the Tamil Sangam literature.

Historians have analysed ancient texts in several languages. Which of the following languages were probably used by ordinary people?

a. Prakrit b. Sanskrit c. Pali d. Tamil

Which of the following statements is/are correct about access to property according to Manusmṛti?

a. The paternal estate was to be divided equally amongst all children after the death of the parents. b. A special share of the paternal estate was given to the eldest son after the death of the parents. c. Women could not claim a share of the paternal estate after the death of the parents.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Natya Shastra of Bharata is a work on dramaturgy written in 300 CE. b. It was written by Varahamihira. c. It is written in Prakrit.

Archaeologist B. B. Lal excavated at a village named Hastinapura in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Which of the following statements is/are correct about his excavations?

a. Lal found evidence of five occupational levels. b. The houses in the second phase were constructed between the seventh and the twelfth centuries BCE. c. Houses of this period were built of mudbricks as well as burnt bricks.

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. Early Sanskrit tradition describes Mahabharata as 'itihasa' or history. b. According to tradition, Vyasa dictated the text to the deity Lord Ganesha. c. The Mahabharata was translated into Persian in 1740-50.