Ancient Indian Literature

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What are narrow domestic walls?

Q. Which of the following is the oldest Dravidian language?

1. Malayalam
2. Kannada
3. Telugu
4. Tamil

Q. Which of the following is the oldest script from the Indian subcontinent?

1. The Grantha script
2. The Latin script
3. The Devanagari script
4. The Harappan script

Q. The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab that became key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, thereby opening a window into ancient Egyptian history. It is hoped that a similar discovery will eventually be made in the context of one other ancient script. Which of the following is being referred to?

1. The Kadamba script
2. The Harappan script
3. The Brahmi script
4. The Sumerian script

Q. can be understood as writing, having excellence of form or expression, and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest.

1. Mathematics
2. Religion
3. Science
4. Literature

Q. _________ is a Sanskrit grammarian.

1. Panini
2. Kalidasa
3. Kautilya
4. Banabhatta

Q. Which of the following languages is the oldest in India?

1. Sanskrit
2. Telugu
3. Hindi
4. Urdu

Q. Write a short note on the coming up of the Urdu language.

Q. Which of the following statements may be associated with literature or literary heritage?

1. It tends to express ideas of permanent or universal interest.
2. It is a measure of the aesthetic excellence of society at the time.
3. It refers to works of writing that have excellence of form or expression.
4. It refers to enterprises that organise knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions.

Q. Sanskrit is said to have developed in the .

1. 1st millennium BCE
2. 4th millennium BCE
3. 2nd millennium BCE
4. 7th millennium BCE

Q. Which of the following may not be categorised as ancient Indian literature?

1. Brahmanical
   texts
2. Kabir Bijak
3. Baburnama
4. Ramcharit Manas
5. Lekhapaddhati
6. Upanishads
7. Vedas
8. Malgudi Days

Q. Who wrote Ashtadhyayi, a book on grammar from the 4th century BCE?

1. Maharshi Panini
2. Amir Khusro
3. Kalidasa
4. Kautilya

Q. can be understood as writing, having excellence of form or expression, and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest.

1. Literature
2. Mathematics
3. Religion
4. Science