UPSC – CSE Prelims 2024
MEDIUM
ART & CULTURE – RELIGION IN INDIA
1. Consider the following statements:
- There are no parables in Upanishads.
- Upanishads were composed earlier than the Puranas.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (b)
Statement 1 is incorrect: Upanishads are known for their philosophical dialogues and teachings, and they often employ allegories and parables to convey complex ideas. For example, the Chandogya Upanishad contains the well-known parable of ‘Satyakama Jabala’ and his search for truth.
Statement 2 is correct: Upanishads form the concluding part of the Vedas and are known as ‘Vedanta’ (the end of the Vedas). They are believed to have been composed between 800-500 BCE. Puranas, on the other hand, are a later genre of Hindu texts, composed from around the 3rd century CE onwards
Day 42 Prelims 2024: Culture Literature Consider the following statements. 1. Upanishads contains Karma kanda i.e. ritualistic actions. 2. Aryanakas contains Jnanakanda i.e. spirituality section. Which of the above statements is/are incorrect? (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Ans. (c) Aryanakas contains Karma kanda i.e. ritualistic actions. Upanishads contains Jnana kanda i.e. spirituality section. |
UPSC – CSE Prelims 2017
ART & CULTURE – RELIGION IN INDIA
1. With reference to the religious history of India, consider the following statements:
- Sautrantika and Sammitiya were the sects of Jainism.
- Sarvastivadin held that the constituents of phenomena were not wholly momentary. but existed forever in a latent form.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: (b)
The Sautrantika were an early Buddhist school generally believed to be descended from the Sthaviranikaya by way of their immediate parent school, the Sarvastivadins.
Their name means literally “those who rely upon the sutras”, and indicated their rejection of the Abhidharma texts of other early Buddhist schools.
The Saṃmitiyawere one of the eighteen or twenty early Buddhist schools in India, and were an offshoot of the Vatsiputriya sect.
Like its predecessor, it claims the person as a carrier of skandhas endures.
The Sarvastivadawere an early school of Buddhism that held to the existence of all dharmas in the past, present and future, the “three times”.
It is a Sanskrit term that can be glossed as: “the theory of all exists