Test: Bhagavatism And Brahmanism - 1 - UPSC MCQ

Arishtanemi, the 22nd Tirthankara

Parsavanath, the 23rd Tirthankara

Rishabha, the first Tirthankara

Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara

Megasthenes wrote that the people of Mathura region held Herakles, an analogue of Vasudeva-Krishna concept, in special honour.

Ashtadhyayi of Panini refers to VasudevaKrishna as an object of bhakti.

Vasudeva-Krishna is clearly referred to it in the epics and the Puranas.

This concept owes much to Greek pantheon of gods.

Parthians

Scythians

Indo-Greeks

Kushans

Charity (Dana)

Piety (Arjava)

Non-injury (Ahimsa)

Truthfulness (Satya Vachana)

All of the above

2nd century B.C

6th century B.C.

Ist century A.D.

3rd century A.D.

Satavahanas

Ikshavakus

Thirkutakas

Abhiras

The worship of Vasudeva identified with Krishna and Vishnu was active from Ist century before the Christian era.

It stressed the merits of worship rather than those of sacrifice. 

In the middle ages this doctrine became a philosophy.

The later day Bhakti cult can be directly traced to Bhavagatism.

Besnagar

Sanchi

Ujjain

Allahabad

Shaivism

Tantricism

Vaishnavism

An episode of Mahabharata

Story of evolution

God has human attributes

God punishes sins in various forms

Victory of good over evil

The Vishnu images of the early post-christian era are mostly to be found in the Mathura region.

The Bhagavata shrines are mostly built by foreigners as the one referred to in the Mora inscription.

An few fragments of the Mora shrines are now to be found in the Mathura museum.

All the above.

Panini’s Ashtadhyayi

Patanjali’s Mahabhashya

Dharmasastra

The Chandogya Upanishad

Kali cult

Vishnu cult

Shiva cult

Yama cult

The Buddha

Mahavira

Rama

Krishna

Both Bhagavatism and Jainism believed in the theory ofkarma.

Both Bhagavatism and Jainism rejected the animal sacrifices.

Both Bhagavatism and Jainism believed in the immortality of soul.

Both Bhagavatism and Jainism believed in the existence of a supreme God.

Both Bhagavatism and Buddhism denied the efficacy of sacrifices and austerities.

Both Bhagavatism and Buddhism rejected the animal sacrifices.

Both Bhavatism and Buddhism believed in re-birth.

Both Bhagavatism and Buddhism stressed the element of bhakti in place of abstract knowledge.

Grace of God

Devotion

Self-surrender

Trancedental love

Epics

Upanishads

Puranas

None of the above

Heliodorus

Sandrokottas

Megasthenes

Strabo

Bhagavatism is also known as ‘Ekatin Dharma’

One of the principal teachers of this cult is believed to be Narada.

The Gita is known as the laymen’s Upanishad.

Even a ‘chandala’ possessed of sincere devotion is dearer to God than a brahmana lacking true faith.

All of the above