College internal 50 · IKS5VACT41 · no university written exam. Full paper practice: 50 MCQ × 1 mark. Write A, B, C or D. Pass 36% (18/50). English first, then Hindi. After Check paper, copy the model paragraph onto the answer sheet — especially the set Gita slokas in Sanskrit.
50 MCQ · 1 mark each · Units 1–5 · college internal
Q. 1. The three strands named in the IKS definition are —
IKS परिभाषा में नामित तीन सूत्र हैं —
IKS is the organised body of Indian knowledge: jnana (knowing), vijnana (systematic science) and jivan-darshan (how life is to be lived). It is taught as a living parampara.
Q. 2. NEP 2020, 4.27 “Knowledge of India” covers —
NEP 2020, 4.27 “Knowledge of India” समेटता है —
This VAC sits under NEP 2020, 4.27, “Knowledge of India”: ancient contributions, tribal and indigenous knowledge, and a sense of India’s future.
Q. 3. A johad in Rajasthan is —
राजस्थान में जोहड़ है —
A johad is a village tank that stores rain. Other water-works of the same kind: Himalayan kuhl, southern eri, Bihar’s ahar-pyne. This is Unit 1 use of traditional knowledge.
Q. 4. The Vishnu Purana line उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् places Bharata —
विष्णु पुराण की पंक्ति उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् भारत को रखती है —
उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् । वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ॥ The land north of the sea and south of Himadri is named Bharata. This is civilisational geography, wider than the 1947 map.
Q. 5. Mature Harappa is known for bronze, cotton, drain and weight. The later Ganga plains are known first for —
परिपक्व हड़प्पा काँस्य, कपास, नाला और बाट के लिए जानी जाती है। बाद के गंगा मैदान पहले इनके लिए जाने जाते हैं —
Sindhu (Harappa): town-plan, drain, weight, bronze, cotton. Later Ganga plains: iron, wet rice, mahajanapadas. Brahmaputra: Kamarupa / Pragjyotisha. Three valleys, three times.
Q. 6. Lothal in Unit 1 is —
इकाई 1 में लोथल है —
West (Arabian Sea): Lothal, Bharukaccha, Muziris. East (Bay of Bengal): Kaveripattinam, Tamralipti. Lothal is a Harappan dock on the Gujarat coast.
Q. 7. A kuhl in the western Himalaya is —
पश्चिमी हिमालय की कूल है —
A kuhl is a Himalayan irrigation-channel that carries snow-melt. An oran is a sacred grove left uncut. Water-work and forest-work are both Unit 1 traditional knowledge.
Q. 8. From vasanta, the six ritus in order are —
वसंत से छह ऋतुएँ क्रम में हैं —
Six ritus: vasanta, grishma, varsha, sharad, hemanta, shishira, turning through two ayanas. The agricultural year is timed by the south-west and north-east monsoon. Ritucharya as medical regimen is Unit 3.
Q. 9. The Arthashastra’s akaradhyaksha is the officer of —
अर्थशास्त्र का आकराध्यक्ष अधिकारी है —
Akaradhyaksha = mine-superintendent. Forests and minerals are one ecology: use with a limit. Khetri (Rajasthan) is a copper belt. An oran is a grove, not a mine.
Q. 10. Pragjyotisha / Kamarupa belongs first to the valley of the —
प्राग्ज्योतिष / कामरूप पहले जिस घाटी का है वह है —
Unit 1 names the Sindhu–Ganga valley and the Brahmaputra valley. Pragjyotisha / Kamarupa is the Brahmaputra civilisation, not Magadha.
Q. 11. Because the Gita sits inside the Mahabharata, in form it is —
गीता महाभारत के भीतर बैठती है, इसलिए रूप में वह है —
Shruti is the heard Veda. Smriti is remembered tradition (epics, law-books). The Gita sits in the Mahabharata, so in form it is smriti, not a Veda.
Q. 12. The Brahmana layer of a Veda-family mainly explains —
वेद-परिवार की ब्राह्मण परत मुख्यतः समझाती है —
Samhita = mantras. Brahmana = how and why the rite is done. Aranyaka = the rite thought at a distance. Upanishad = teaching on self and brahman.
Q. 13. At the Vedic fire, hotr, adhvaryu and udgatr speak from —
वैदिक अग्नि पर होता, अध्वर्यु और उद्गाता बोलते हैं —
Hotr recites Rig hymns. Adhvaryu performs with Yajur formulae. Udgatr chants Sama. Atharvaveda is house, healing and protection — a fourth Veda, not one of these three ritual voices.
Q. 14. Nirukta, as a Vedanga, is the science of —
वेदांग के रूप में निरुक्त विज्ञान है —
Six Vedangas: Shiksha (phonetics), Kalpa (ritual, including Shulba geometry), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (word-meaning), Chandas (metre), Jyotisha (time of the rite). Aryabhata is later siddhanta, Unit 5.
Q. 15. Vedic rta is —
वैदिक ऋत है —
Vedic life is centred on agni and yajna. Rta is the order that binds season, true speech and rite. Knowledge moves by guru-shishya recitation.
Q. 16. A darshana is called nastika when it —
दर्शन नास्तिक तब कहलाता है जब वह —
Astika = the school accepts the Veda as a pramana. Nastika = it does not. Name three nastika streams: Charvaka / Lokayata, Jaina, Bauddha. They remain Indian philosophy.
Q. 17. Samkhya’s basic pair is —
सांख्य का मूल जोड़ा है —
Samkhya: purusha (consciousness) and prakriti (nature). Prakriti evolves through sattva, rajas, tamas. Yoga is the paired method: chitta-vritti-nirodha. Samkhya gunas are not the three doshas.
Q. 18. The Gita slokas set for memorization are —
कंठस्थ करने को निर्धारित गीता-श्लोक हैं —
Write the numbers, then the Sanskrit. One-line job of each slice: II action without fruit; IV learning from a seer; VI measured food and sleep; XVI daivi and asuri; XVII three foods.
Q. 19. In Gita II.47, मा फलेषु कदाचन means —
गीता II.47 में मा फलेषु कदाचन का अर्थ है —
Write: कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ Meaning: you have a claim to action, never to the fruits; do not make fruit the cause of work; do not cling to inaction.
Q. 20. Gita II.48, समत्वं योग उच्यते, names yoga as —
गीता II.48, समत्वं योग उच्यते, योग को नाम करती है —
Write II.48: योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥ Evenness is called yoga. II.50: बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते। तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्॥ Yoga is skill in actions.
Q. 21. Gita IV.34’s three means are pranipata, pariprashna and seva. That is —
गीता IV.34 के तीन साधन प्रणिपात, परिप्रश्न और सेवा हैं। अर्थ है —
Write: तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया। उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः॥ Know by reverence, question and service; those who have seen the tattva will teach.
Q. 22. Gita XVII.8 names sattvika food as that which —
गीता XVII.8 सात्त्विक आहार उसे नाम करती है जो —
Write XVII.8: आयुःसत्त्वबलारोग्यसुखप्रीतिविवर्धनाः। रस्याः स्निग्धाः स्थिरा हृद्या आहाराः सात्त्विकप्रियाः॥ XVII.9 rajasika: कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः। आहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः॥ XVII.10 tamasika: यातयामं गतरसं पूति पर्युषितं च यत्। उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम्॥ Three foods, three gunas.
Q. 23. Ashtanga Hrdaya treats first the svastha, then the atura. That means Ayurveda first —
अष्टांग हृदय पहले स्वस्थ, फिर आतुर चलाता है। अर्थ है आयुर्वेद पहले —
Ayurveda = ayus + veda, the knowledge of life. Ashtanga Hrdaya treats the svastha first, then the atura. Health is named balance of dosha, agni, dhatu, mala and mind. Yoga is a sister practice, not the same heading.
Q. 24. Sattva, rajas and tamas are —
सत्त्व, रजस् और तमस् हैं —
Gunas: sattva (clarity), rajas (motion), tamas (heaviness). Doshas are a different list: vata, pitta, kapha. Do not write “three gunas: vata, pitta, kapha.”
Q. 25. Vata is chiefly a mix of the mahabhutas —
वात मुख्यतः जिन महाभूतों का मिश्रण है —
Pancha mahabhuta: akasha, vayu, agni, jala, prithvi. Vata = space + air (motion). Pitta = fire + water (transformation). Kapha = water + earth (cohesion).
Q. 26. Ojas in Ayurveda is —
आयुर्वेद में ओजस है —
Sapta-dhatu in order: rasa, rakta, mamsa, meda, asthi, majja, shukra. Ojas is the essence of all seven. Mala (faeces, urine, sweat) must leave; they are not dhatu.
Q. 27. Ama forms when —
आम बनता है जब —
Disease is imbalance: dosha out of seat and measure, agni too low or too fierce, ama blocking the channels, dhatu underfed or overfed, mala stuck, mind pulled to rajas and tamas.
Q. 28. Vega-dharana, in dinacharya, means —
दिनचर्या में वेग-धारण का अर्थ है —
Dinacharya: rise in brahma-muhurta, cleanse, oil (abhyanga, nasya), measured movement, bath, sattvika food, work, sleep not late. Natural urges are not to be suppressed. Ritucharya is the year’s routine.
Q. 29. In vasanta, kapha is high. Ritucharya therefore prefers —
वसंत में कफ ऊँचा होता है। ऋतुचर्या इसलिए चुनती है —
Vasanta: kapha is high — light, more pungent food and more movement. Grishma: sweet-cold, not extra heat. Varsha: vata — sour, salty, oily. Sharad: pitta. Hemanta and shishira: oil and warmth.
Q. 30. The named Ayurveda book for this VAC is —
इस VAC की नामित आयुर्वेद-पुस्तक है —
Brihat-trayi: Charaka Samhita (kaya-chikitsa), Sushruta Samhita (shalya), Ashtanga Hrdaya of Vagbhata. The named classroom book is Ashtanga Hrdaya (Srikantha Murthy). The authors as persons are Unit 5.
Q. 31. The Sushruta Samhita is first the book of —
सुश्रुत संहिता पहले पुस्तक है —
Sushruta: Dhanvantari line at Kashi; shalya, anatomy, instruments, practice on models, nasasandhana (repair of the nose). Charaka is inner medicine and the vaidya’s ethics. Both are Ayurveda.
Q. 32. Shaucha, santosha, tapas, svadhyaya and ishvara-pranidhana are —
शौच, संतोष, तप, स्वाध्याय और ईश्वर-प्रणिधान हैं —
Yama: ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, aparigraha. Niyama: shaucha, santosha, tapas, svadhyaya, ishvara-pranidhana. Yoga’s eight limbs are not Ayurveda’s ashtanga (kaya-chikitsa, shalya, shalakya…).
Q. 33. The Magadha cluster of mahaviharas is —
मगध के महाविहार-समूह हैं —
Six centres: Takshashila (Gandhara, north-west); Magadha cluster Nalanda, Odantapuri, Vikramshila; Vallabhi (Gujarat, west); Pushpagiri (Odisha / Kalinga, east).
Q. 34. Takshashila stood in —
तक्षशिला खड़ी थी —
Takshashila sits in Gandhara, in the north-west of Bharat Varsha. Masters taught law, medicine, military art, grammar and the Vedas to pupils who lived nearby. Panini and Chanakya are remembered in that school-region. Nalanda is a later Magadha mahavihara.
Q. 35. Nalanda’s library is later remembered as —
नालंदा का पुस्तकालय बाद में याद है —
Nalanda: Magadha, Bihar; Guptas, Harsha’s century, Pala grants. Xuanzang and Yijing describe thousands of monks, debate, and a library later named Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi, Ratnaranjaka. The three Odisha hills are Pushpagiri.
Q. 36. Xuanzang and Yijing, for Nalanda, are —
नालंदा के लिए शुआनज़ंग और यिजिंग हैं —
Chinese pilgrims stayed, studied and wrote what a foreign student saw: numbers of monks, daily routine, debate, hierarchy of teachers, and medicine among the arts. They are sources, not the founders of Nalanda.
Q. 37. Atiśa Dipankara is tied first to —
अतिश दीपंकर पहले बँधे हैं —
Vikramshila: Pala Bihar, Bhagalpur region, in the tradition of Dharmapala (8th–9th century); tantra and logic. It is Nalanda’s sister mahavihara. Atiśa later shaped Tibetan Buddhism. Kaladi is Shankara (Unit 5).
Q. 38. Vallabhi was a Maitraka school-city in —
वल्लभी मैत्रक विद्यालय-नगर थी —
Vallabhi: Saurashtra / Gujarat, Maitraka capital, about the 6th–8th centuries. Some accounts set its reputation beside Nalanda. It is not Pala Bihar.
Q. 39. Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri and Udayagiri are the hills of —
ललितगिरि, रत्नगिरि और उदयगिरि पहाड़ियाँ हैं —
Pushpagiri is a cluster of hills in Kalinga / Odisha, not one walled college: Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri. Xuanzang notes a great eastern monastery. IKS education is not only the Gangetic mahavihara.
Q. 40. Several Magadha mahaviharas end when —
कई मगध महाविहार समाप्त होते हैं जब —
Patronage (Gupta, Harsha, Pala, Maitraka) gave grain and a roof. Takshashila fades earlier with north-west invasions. Magadha mahaviharas are cut in the thirteenth-century invasions. Vallabhi falls with Maitraka power.
Q. 41. Unit 5’s nine scholars end with —
इकाई 5 के नौ विद्वान् अंत में पहुँचते हैं —
Write a short life, one or two works, and one IKS sentence for: Patanjali, Charaka, Sushruta, Kanada, Aryabhata, Adi Shankaracharya, Nagarjuna, Panini, Chanakya. The syllabus also prints Susruta, Kanad, Aryabhaata, Nagarhuna, Chankaya — use the common forms.
Q. 42. “Yoga is chitta-vritti-nirodha” is the opening claim of —
“योग चित्त-वृत्ति-निरोध है” जिस कृति का आरंभ-दावा है —
Patanjali is the rishi of the Yoga Sutra: yoga is chitta-vritti-nirodha (stilling the turnings of the mind); eight limbs from yama to samadhi. A second Patanjali writes the Mahabhashya on Panini. Name the Yoga Sutra first.
Q. 43. Nasasandhana (repair of the nose) as a surgical craft is tied to —
नासा-संधान शल्य-शिल्प के रूप में बँधा है —
Sushruta Samhita: surgery, anatomy, instruments, training of the hand, practice on models. Charaka is kaya-chikitsa, nidana and the atura’s room. Both belong to Ayurveda, Unit 3 as texts and Unit 5 as persons.
Q. 44. The Charaka Samhita stands in the teaching line of —
चरक संहिता जिस शिक्षा-पंक्ति में खड़ी है —
Charaka: inner medicine (kaya-chikitsa), nidana, physician’s ethics, in the Atreya–Agnivesha–Charaka–Dridhabala line. Sushruta: Dhanvantari line at Kashi. Vagbhata completes the brihat-trayi.
Q. 45. Paramanu as an indivisible particular is taught in —
परमाणु अविभाज्य विशेष के रूप में सिखाया गया है —
Kanada: padarthas (dravya, guna, karma, samanya, vishesha, samavaya) and paramanu, the indivisible particular. The school is astika: Veda remains a pramana.
Q. 46. Aryabhatiya is dated about 499 CE and associated with —
आर्यभटीय लगभग 499 ई. की है और जुड़ी है —
Aryabhata: place-value including zero in practice, a value of pi, the earth’s rotation for day and night, eclipse-reckoning, sine tables. Later siddhanta, not Vedanga jyotisha. Associated with Kusumapura / Pataliputra, about 499 CE. Varahamihira and Brahmagupta follow.
Q. 47. The four mathas of the usual Shankara list include —
शंकर की सामान्य चार-मठ सूची में हैं —
Adi Shankaracharya: born at Kaladi (Kerala); often 8th century CE. Bhashyas on Upanishad, Brahma-sutra and Gita. He is Advaita Vedanta — one Vedanta, not all Vedanta (Ramanuja, Madhva later), and not Nagarjuna.
Q. 48. Mulamadhyamaka-karika is the central work of —
मूलमाध्यमक-कारिका किसकी केन्द्रीय कृति है —
Nagarjuna, about the 2nd–3rd century CE, Deccan / Nagarjunakonda. Shunyata: things lack independent svabhava; the middle between eternalism and nihilism — not “nothing exists.” Nastika in the Veda-pramana sense, still Indian philosophy. Later Madhyamaka lived at Nalanda; his own century is earlier.
Q. 49. Salatura in Gandhara is associated with —
गांधार का शलातुर जिस विद्वान् से जुड़ा है —
Panini, often 5th–4th century BCE, Gandhara / Salatura, Takshashila’s region. Sanskrit was already shruti; he mapped it as a rule-system in eight chapters. Later Katyayana and Patanjali’s Mahabhashya stand on him.
Q. 50. The Arthashastra, tied to Chandragupta Maurya, is the shastra of —
चंद्रगुप्त मौर्य से बँधा अर्थशास्त्र शास्त्र है —
Chanakya (Kautilya, Vishnugupta): Takshashila is his teaching centre. The Arthashastra is polity and livelihood — economy, law, spies, forts, mines, forests. It is not Vedanta.
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