RRB Junior Engineer (JE) Sample Paper: General Awareness (History)-13

1. What did the term niyoga, with reference to women, stand for in the vedic society ?

(a) Symbolic self-immolation of a widow at the death of her husband.
(b) Cohabitation of a childless widow with her husband’s brother until the birth of a son.
(c) The vow of celibacy taken by a women of upper class.
(d) The performance of vedic sacrifices by a women independently.

2. Which one of the following vedic texts gives a detailed description of the Upanayna Samskara ?

(a) Atharva veda
(b) Chandyoga Upanishad
(c) Satapatha Brahmana
(d) Tandyamaha Brahamana

3. Which of the following text contains the famous Gayatri Mantra, addressed to the solar deity Savitri ?

(a) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
(b) Rig Veda Samhita
(c) Atharva Veda Samhita
(d) Yajur Veda Samhita

4. Which of the following was not a feature of the later vedic society ?

(a) A monetary economy
(b) Taxes were collected in kind
(c) Increase in sacrifices and rituals
(d) Kinship-based

5. Which of the following route was the stop-over of the Indo-European or Aryans before enetering India ?

(a) Bacteria and the Northern Iranian plateau
(b) Central Europe
(c) Makran
(d) None of the above

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