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4.11 Quiz on Ancient Indian Culture

4.11 Quiz on Ancient Indian Culture

Q 1. What are five key precepts of Hinduism?2. What are four notable traits of Indus Valley Culture?3. What is the concept of the Hindu caste system in relation to karma and moksha, and what are the four main castes, by name and in order?4. What are the Four Noble Truths?5. What are the Five Buddhist Precepts?

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The one of the five key precepts of Hinduism is the “Divinity of the Vedas”. Like other religions in the world, the Vedic and Hindu peoples consider the Vedas as the collective spirit of divine and eternal truths revealed to the Rishi, or divine seers. The second is the “Universe undergoes endless cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction”. The cycle of the creation and destruction in the Vedic /Hindu tradition is endless as the imposition on the single creation of Vedic/Hindu tradition would bear the predictable barriers on the creator. According to Rig Veda (Book X, Hymn 129) suggests, “The notion of knowing the true creation is unknowable”.