1. | The main similarity between the philosophy of life of Buddha and Mirabai was? |
A. Observance of non-violence vow | |
B. Austerity to build | |
C. The world is sad | |
D. Tell the truth |
2. | ‘Brahman is truth and the world is false (illusion or maya)’ – whose statement is this? |
A. Shankaracharya | |
B. Ramanujacharya | |
C. Vallabhacharya | |
D. Chaitanya |
3. | Who among the following has been termed as ‘disguised Buddhist’ by some thinkers? |
A. Ramanujacharya | |
B. Shankaracharya | |
C. Kumaril Bhatt | |
D. Chaitanya |
4. | Ramanujacharya had to leave Trichanapalli and go to Mysore due to the threat of which staunch Saivite Matavalamvi Chola ruler? |
A. Rajaraja I | |
B. Rajendra I | |
C. Kulotung. | |
D. None of these |
5. | Ramanujacharya succeeded in converting the Jain Dharmavalamchi ruler Vittiga of the Hoysala dynasty to Vaishnavism. What did Wittig change his name to? |
A. Vishnuvardhan | |
B. Vishnuswamy | |
C. Ramaswamy | |
D. Vitthalswami |
6. | Who prevented the Shudras from accepting Islam by giving them the right to see God and salvation in the field of devotion? |
A. Ramanujacharya | |
B. Vallabhacharya | |
C. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu | |
D. Madhvacharya |
7. | Who was the saint from South India who spent most of his life in Vrindavan in North India? |
A. Ramanujacharya | |
B. Nimbarka Acharya | |
C. Madhvacharya | |
D. Vishnu Swami |
8. | Vithoba or Vitthal (a name of Vishnu) in Maharashtra was the center of the movement in- |
A. Pandharpur | |
B. Paithan | |
C. Carly | |
D. Elephanta |
9. | Who wrote a voluminous commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by the name ‘Bhavartha Dipika’ known as ‘Dnyaneshwari’ in Marathi? |
A. Jnanadev | |
B. Namdev | |
C. Eknath | |
D. Tukaram |
10. | ‘If Sanskrit is the language of God, then is my mother tongue (Marathi) the language of dasyus’ whose statement is this? |
A. Jnanadev | |
B. Eknath | |
C. Tukaram | |
D. Ramdas |