Question

The Upanishads included ideas and questions about life, the universe, and the soul. Choose the correct statement(s) in this context.

• A. Ideas were presented in the form of dialogues in the Upanishads.
• B. Most of the thinkers who contributed ideas were women.
• C. Shankaracharya was a famous thinker who later developed the ideas of the Upanishads.
• D. A few women thinkers like Gargi contributed ideas to the Upanishads.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (C), (D)

The correct options are
A Ideas were presented in the form of dialogues in the Upanishads.
C Shankaracharya was a famous thinker who later developed the ideas of the Upanishads.
D A few women thinkers like Gargi contributed ideas to the Upanishads.

Ideas were presented in the form of dialogues in the Upanishads. Shankaracharya was a famous thinker who later developed the ideas of Upanishads. Women thinkers like Gargi also contributed ideas to the Upanishads. However, most of the thinkers who contributed ideas in the Upanishads were men.