- Meerabai was a Rajput princess of Merta and she was married to Bhojaraja. She was a devotee of Krishna. She preached in ———— language which is the common language of the people in those times.
a. Brijbhasha
b. Sanskrit
c. Hindi
d. Bhojpuri
Ans: a
- Ramanuja was a worshipper of Vishnu and preached ———?
a. Hinduism
b. Vaishnavism
c. Judaism
d. Sikhism
Ans: b
- Kabir was against idol worship and any sort of rituals. He was a disciple of?
a. Guru Nanak
b. Mirabai
c. Ramananda
d. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ans: c
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a religious teacher and he was from Bengal. He was a devotee of?
a. Lord Krishna
b. Rama
c. Vishnu
d. Indra
Ans: a
- Ramdasa was the guru of which king?
a. Akbar
b. Ashoka
c. Shivaji
d. Balaji Baji Rao
Ans: c
- ——– was the founder of Purandardasa movement?
a. Tulasidas
b. Tukaram
c. Haridasa
d. Ramanuja
Ans: c
- Vallabhacharya lived in the court of ——?
a. Raja Mansingh Tomar
b. Krishnadeva Raya
c. Balaji Vishwanath
d. Shivaji
Ans: b
- Who propounded the Shudha Advaitavada?
a. Vallabhacharya
b. Kabir
c. Eknath
d. Ramdasa
Ans: a
- Whose philosophy is known as Pushtimarga?
a. Namdeva
b. Mirabai
c. Tulasidas
d. Vallabhacharya
Ans: d
- Who founded the Rudra Sampradaya?
a. Tukaram
b. Haridasa
c. Ramanuja
d. Vallabhacharya
Ans: d
- Who started the cult of Parmarth?
a. Ramdasa
b. Eknath
c. Kabir
d. Namdeva
Ans: a
- Dababodha was written by?
a. Krishnadeva Raya
b. Ramdasa
c. Tukaram
d. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ans: b
- In which region the Alvars and Nayanars popularized the Bakthi cult?
a. Northern India
b. Western India
c. Southern India
d. Eastern India
Ans: c
- Who popularised the Advaita philosophy?
a. Haridasa
b. Mirabai
c. Kabir
d. Shankaracharya
Ans: d
- Who has written the famous quote “Brahma Satyam Jagat Mithya, Jivo Brahmaiva Naparaha”?
a. Namdeva
b. Guru Nanak
c. Shankaracharya
d. Ramanuja
Ans: c
- Who has written books like Vivek Chudamani, Upadesh Shastri, Bhaja Govindam Stotra, etc?
a. Shankaracharya
b. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
c. Tukaram
d. Eknath
Ans: a
- Who has established mathas at Puri, Sringiri, Bhadrinath & Dwarka?
a. Mirabai
b. Nimbraka
c. Ramanuja
d. Shankaracharya
Ans: d
- Who founded the Shivadvaita?
a. Srikanthacharya
b. Nimbraka
c. Krishnadeva Raya
d. Eknath
Ans: a
- Who advocated the philosophy of Vishista Advaitavada?
a. Ramanuja
b. Shankaracharya
c. Namdeva
d. Kabir
Ans: a
- Who founded the Shrivaishnava sect?
a. Haridasa
b. Ramanuja
c. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
d. Mirabai
Ans: b
- Who wrote Sri Bhashya, Vedanta dipa, Gita Bhashya, Vedantasara, etc?
a. Tukaram
b. Eknath
c. Nimbraka
d. Ramanuja
Ans: d
- Who founded the Dvaita philosophy?
a. Srikanthacharya
b. Namdeva
c. Madhavacharya
d. Mirabai
Ans: c
- Who founded the Brahma Sampradaya?
a. Madhavacharya
b. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
c. Kabir
d. Nimbraka
Ans: a
- Whose disciples formed the Kabirpanthi sect?
a. Tukaram
b. Kabir
c. Haridasa
d. Shankaracharya
Ans: b
- Whose songs can be found in the Adi grantha?
a. Guru Nanak
b. Ramdasa
c. Kabir
d. Namdeva
Ans: c
- The Raidas panth was started by which disciple of Ramananda?
a. Raidas
b. Ramdasa
c. Kabir
d. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ans: a
- Rani Jhali was the disciple of ——-?
a. Raidas
b. Guru Nanak
c. Nimbraka
d. Mirabai
Ans: a
- Who wrote Ramacharita manas, Vinaypatrika and Kavitavali?
a. Kabir
b. Tulasidas
c. Ramdasa
d. Namdeva
Ans: b
- Who wrote Sursagar?
a. Tulasidas
b. Surdas
c. Raidas
d. Haridasa
Ans: b
- Jagjivanadasa founded which sect?
a. Satnami
b. Ajivika
c. Advita
d. Shrivaishnava
Ans: a
- Who founded the Sikh sect?
a. Kabir
b. Guru Nanak
c. Surdas
d. Namdeva
Ans: b
- Who started the free community kitchens called Guru Ka langar?
a. Raidas
b. Ramdasa
c. Guru Nanak
d. Kabir
Ans: c
- Whose followers formed the Dadu-Panth?
a. Dadudayal
b. Namdeva
c. Surdas
d. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ans: a
- Who propounded Bheda Bheda philosophy and Dvaitadvaita philosophy?
a. Kabir
b. Nimbraka
c. Namdeva
d. Guru Nanak
Ans: b
- Who founded the Sanak Sampradaya?
a. Nimbraka
b. Surdas
c. Haridasa
d. Tulasidas
Ans: a
- Dadu’s compositions were recorded by his disciple ———and are known as the Dadu Anubhav Vani, a compilation of 5,000 verses.
a. Rajjab
b. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
c. Kabir
d. Haridasa
Ans: a
- Bhakti poetry had two schools – the Saguna school (the believers of a God with attributes and worshippers of Vishnu’s incarnations). and the Nirguna school (the believers of a formless God or an abstract name). ——-and ——-belong to the Nirguna school and they also believed in the concept of Nirgun Nirakaar Bramh or the Shapeless Formless One.
a. Kabir and Guru Nanak
b. Kabir and Haridas
c. Guru Nanak and surdas
d. Guru Nanak and Rajjab
Ans: a
- _________Indian school was represented by the famous Vaishnava poets like Tulsidas, Surdas, etc as a logical extension of the Vishishta Advaita and Dvaita Philosophy propounded by the likes of Madhavacharya, etc? Which school was mainly Vaishnava in its orientation as was seen in the main compositions like Sur Saravali, Sur Sagar, Raamcharitmanas, praising Lord Rama & Lord Krishna?
a. The Saguna school
b. The Nirguna school
c. The Advaita school
d. The Dvaita school
Ans: a
- The Lingayat sect was founded by?
a. Kabir
b. Raidas
c. Ramdasa
d. Basava
Ans:d
- The Lingayat sect is also known as?
a. Hinduism
b. Varkari sect
c. Virasaiva sect
d. Dasmani sect
Ans: c
- Who founded the Varkari sect?
a. Tulasidas
b. Tukaram
c. Nimbraka
d. Surdas
Ans: b
- Chaitanya belonged to —— sect?
a. Varkari sect
b. Virasaiva sect
c. Dasmani sect
d. None of the above
Ans: c
- The biography of Chaitanya was written by ——— and called it Chaitanya charitmrita?
a. Krishnadas Kaviraj
b. Kabir
c. Tukaram
d. Tulasidas
Ans: a
- Who started the Achintayabheda bhedavada?
a. Ramadas
b. Chaitanya
c. Raidas
d. Basava
Ans: b
- Who wrote Govind Bhashya?
a. Vidya Bhushan
b. Surdas
c. Haridasa
d. Tulasidas
Ans: a
- Whose followers organized themselves into a sect called Gaudiya Vaishnavism?
a. Surdas
b. Haridasa
c. Vidya bhushan
d. Tulsidas
Ans: c
- Who spread bhakti in Assam?
a. Kabir
b. Shankara Deva
c. Nanak
d. Ramanuja
Ans: b
- Who founded the Ramanandi sect?
a. Ramananda
b. Raidas
c. Ramdasa
d. Basava
Ans: a
- The Vaikhanasa was a ritualistic cult, it was founded by?
a. Surdas
b. Vikhanas
c. Tukaram
d. Tulsidas
Ans:b
- Which sect was founded by Lakulisa which was the oldest extreme sect of Saivism?
a. Pasupata sect
b. Varkari sect
c. Virasaiva sect
d. Dasmani sect
Ans: a
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