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Indian aesthetics | Set 1

1. Brahma in originating the Natyaveda has borrowed the art of effective speech from __________ .

Correct : A. rgveda

2. According to____________ there were three preceding books of natyasastra attributed to brahma bharatha , SadasivaBharatha and AdiBharatha.

Correct : A. abhinava bharati

3. ________ is the founder of samkhya system.

Correct : B. panini

4. According to pessimistic _____ nature is not wholly beautiful.

Correct : A. nyaya

5. Purusharthas are ____ in number.

Correct : A. 4

6. Brahma in originating Natyaveda has borrowed acting from ______ veda.

Correct : C. yajurveda

7. _________ is the author of kavyaalamkarasutravritti .

Correct : D. none of these

8. According to Vamana __________ riti has all the ten gunas.

Correct : B. panchali

9. _______ coined the term aesthetics.

Correct : A. baumgarten

10. According to __________ aesthetics is a science of sense cognition.

Correct : D. baumgarten

11. The word Soundarya stands for the concept ______of in Indian aesthetics.

Correct : D. beauty

12. The earliest attempt to define art is found in _____brahmana.

Correct : A. aitareya

13. _________ is the author of aesthetica .

Correct : C. baumgarten

14. _________ is Aristotle’s work on Tragedy

Correct : B. poetics

15. Immanuel Kant discusses his aesthetic theory in _________ .

Correct : C. critique of judgment

16. On sublime by _____ is one of the important work of Greeko roman literature.

Correct : A. longinus

17. _____ is the first known and extant work on dramaturgy in Indian tradition.

Correct : A. natyasastra

18. _________ is the first known author of poetics.

Correct : A. bharatha

19. According to _______ a performance of drama is concerned with achieving certain siddhis.

Correct : B. bharatha

20. __________ is the author of Malavikagnimitram.

Correct : B. kalidasa

21. _________ is the author of Rasagangadhara.

Correct : B. jagannatha

22. In _______ purana there are two chapters dealing with architecture.

Correct : A. matsya

23. Upanishads, ___________, and the Bhagavad-Gita, are collectively called the prasthanathrayi.

Correct : A. brahmasutras

24. The founder of Nyaya school is___________ .

Correct : B. gautama

25. According to ________Art is mimesis.

Correct : A. plato

26. Both Bharatha and Aristotle were primarily concerned with __________.

Correct : C. drama

27. According to ___________ right knowledge is the knowledge of the separation of purusa from prakriti.

Correct : A. samkhya

28. Brahmasutra is the basic text of _______ school of Indian philosophy.

Correct : D. vedanta

29. According to _________ nature is not wholly beautiful.

Correct : B. sankhya

30. Purusa according to samkhya conception is absolutely _________ .

Correct : C. passive

31. According _______ nature is wholly beautiful.

Correct : A. vedanta

32. _______ is the author of sankhyakarika.

Correct : D. isvarakrsna

33. Vacaspatimisra wrote a commentary on ____________ .

Correct : B. sankhyakarika

34. According to samkhya philosophy everything is made up of _______ gunas.

Correct : A. 3

35. Sankhya aesthetics is ________ .

Correct : A. pessimistic

36. According to _______________artistic attitude is characterized by a temporary forgetting of our individuality.

Correct : A. vedanta

37. The aim art according to samkhya and Vedanta is to induce _______.

Correct : A. detachment

38. According to ___________ artistic attitude offers an escape from the natural world.

Correct : D. sankhya

39. Vedanta aesthetics is ___________.

Correct : B. optimistic

40. Prakrti and purusa are the two realities according to ______ system.

Correct : B. samkhya

41. “Vibhavanubhavavyabhicharisamyogadrasanispattih” is the _______ .

Correct : B. rasa sutra

42. According to the rasa sutra of Bharata the birth rasa takes place out of the combination of _________, anubhava and vyabhicharibhava .

Correct : B. sthayibhava

43. According to ____________ rasa is a permanent mental state intensified by determinants, consequents and transitory emotions.

Correct : B. bhattalollata

44. According to Bharatha _________ is the expression of mental states.

Correct : A. bhava

45. BhattaLollata was not concerned about __________ view of rasa.

Correct : C. spectator

46. According to ______Rasa is not an intensified state but an imitated mental state

Correct : A. sankuka

47. _______________ is the author of kavyakautuka .

Correct : D. bhattatauta

48. _________ is the special power words in poetry and drama assume according bhattanayaka

Correct : B. bhavana

49. The concept of _______ is Bhattanayaka’s main contribution to Indian aesthetics.

Correct : C. sadharanikarana

50. Acording to bhattanayaka aesthetic experience is not noetic in character ,but it is a kind of ____________ .

Correct : C. bhoga

51. According to _________ thesecondry function of language does not imply poetry .

Correct : A. anandhavardhana

52. _______________ held the view that poetic meaning is not understood by mere learning of grammar and poetry .

Correct : C. bhattanayaka

53. In _____ kavya conventional meaning are subordinate.

Correct : C. dhvani

54. The ninthrasa according to Abhinavagupta is _______________

Correct : D. santa

55. Aesthetic experience is ___________ ordinary experience and religious experience

Correct : B. different from

56. Abhinavagupta takes the idea of sadharanikarana from _______ .

Correct : A. bhattanayaka

57. According to ______________ rasa is not limited by any difference of space , time and knowing subject.

Correct : B. abhinavagupta

58. Unlike ______ Abhinavagupta separates the boundaries between aesthetic and mystical experience.

Correct : A. bhattanayaka

59. Sattvikabhavas are __________ in number

Correct : C. eight

60. _____________ are 33 in number.

Correct : C. vyabhicharibhava

61. _______________ is the author of Kavyaprakasadarsa.

Correct : A. maheshvara

62. Abhinavagupta belongs to ______________ school of Indian philosophy

Correct : C. pratyabhinja

63. Theories of literature and drama are discussed in ______________.

Correct : A. vishnudharmottarapurana

64. ____________ is the author of Kavyadarsa.

Correct : D. dandin

65. According to Bharathasthayibhavas are ________ in number.

Correct : D. 8

66. Vibhavas are of ___ types

Correct : A. two

67. Actors in the drama are _____________ vibhavas.

Correct : A. alambhana

68. ___________ is bodily reaction by which vibhavas and bhavas are understood.

Correct : A. anubhava

69. Bharatha defines _______ as the condition for the expression of rasa in poetry.

Correct : A. bhava

70. Bharata enumerates bhavas as _________ in number and classifies them as sthayibhavas ,vyabhicharibhavas and sattvikabhavas.

Correct : A. 49

71. __________describes natya as anukriti.

Correct : D. bharatha

72. According to Bharathabhavas or rasas has _______ stages of transformations.

Correct : B. three

73. Bharatha recognizes ________ types of acting .

Correct : B. four

74. Angika, vachika, sattvika and ___________ are the types of acting recognized by Bharata .

Correct : B. aharya

75. The four types of actions recognized by Bharatha are Sattvati, arabhati ,_______ and bharathi .

Correct : A. kaisiki

76. Srngara rasa is based on the sthayibhava __________

Correct : C. rati

77. _______ rasa based on the sthayibhavautsaha.

Correct : A. vira

78. Ugrata is _______________ bhava.

Correct : A. vyabhichari

79. Sthamba is _______________ .

Correct : B. satvika

80. Nirveda and glani are ______________ bhava.

Correct : A. vyabhichari

81. Presiding diety of the srngara rasa is ______ .

Correct : A. visnu

82. The colour associated with hasyarasa is __________.

Correct : A. white

83. The diety associated withadbhuta rasa is ___________ .

Correct : A. brahma

84. The colour associated with raudrarasa is

Correct : A. black

85. ________ is the sthayibhava associated with raudrarasa .

Correct : A. krodha

86. Intoxication, despair, Epilepsy, sickness, madness, death are the vyabhicharibhavas associatedwith __________ rasa .

Correct : A. bhibatsa

87. The colour associated with karuna rasa in _____

Correct : D. grey

88. The deity associated with vira rasa is ____________ .

Correct : D. indra

89. ________ is the sthayibhavaassociated with adbhutharasa .

Correct : A. juguspa

90. All vyabhicaris except indolence and cruelty are associatedwith ____ rasa .

Correct : A. srngara

91. In the ancient past theoretical performance was called ----------- .

Correct : B. rupaka

92. Most evolved form of rupaka is called ________ .

Correct : D. nataka

93. Which among the following is not a rupaka ?

Correct : D. alamkara

94. Bharatha talks about __ varieties of poetic embellishments.

Correct : B. 36

95. According to ______ alamkara is the most essential element of poetry.

Correct : A. bhamaha

96. According to ___________ vakrokti is the soul of poetry .

Correct : B. kundaka

97. _________in Kavyaalankaara divides kavya into three based on the language as Samskrita, Prakrita and Apabhramsha

Correct : A. bhamaha

98. Dandin, in his ____________divides Kavya as gadya, padya and mishra.

Correct : A. kavyadarsha

99. __________ the author of Alamkara-sara-sangraha,

Correct : D. udhbhata

100. ____________in his work Kavyaalamkara-sutra, declares riti as the soul of poetry.

Correct : C. vamana