Sanskrit is the only language that crossed _______________ and ______________ boundaries.a.Geographical and culturalb.Tradition and culturec.individual and communald.Spirituality and divine

According to Hinduism Sanskrit is the oldest language which is used by __________________________ for communication and dialogue and also by Indo-Aryans.a.Hindu celestial godb.Buddhist godc.Jainism godd.Sikhist god

1. The coming of the Turks, Afghans and Persians saw Sanskrit being replaced by _____________________ as the court language. 2. The Padshahnama describes the reign of __________________. 3. The Rajputs preferred the ___________ style of painting. 4. ______________ was the guru of Tansen. 5. Bengal had a rich tradition of folk music sung by the ____________. III. Give one word for: 1. The form of devotional music developed by the Sufi and Bhakti saints. ___________ 2. Poetry that was written in the form of couplets by Kabir and Rahim. ___________ 3. The style of dance favoured by the Mughals. ___________ 4. The different schools of music developed in different regions of North India. ___________ 5. The facial expressions used by kathak dancers. ___________

How did Sanskrit literature influence the development of regional languages and literary traditions?

Sanskrit is a language from the Indian sub-continent, spoken for over 3500years, and is the language of many of the main texts of Hinduism and Bud-dhism. Roughly 2500 years ago, one of the main branches of Sanskrit poetry(Chandras, or Vedic Sanskrit) used lines of poetry with a fixed syllable length.Sanskrit, however, has two different “lengths” of syllables; one short andone long (twice as long as a short syllable). So, if you had a 5-syllable lengthphrase, it could be composed of these syllables 8 ways:ˆ short-short-short-short-shortˆ short-short-short-longˆ short-short-long-shortˆ short-long-short-shortˆ long-short-short-shortˆ long-long-shortˆ long-short-longˆ short-long-long2.1. Make a table of the number of ways to choose long and short syllablesto compose line lengths from 3 to 7 syllables long. For example, there aretwo way to make a 2-syllable line: short-short and long.2.2. One of the most frequent line lengths was an 8-syllable length. List allways to combine short and long syllable to get an 8-syllable length. (Notethat one way would be long-long-long-long, and another would be long-short-long-short-long. Your answer should be between 30 and 40.)

The Nagara, the Dravida and the Vesara are the __________.a)  three main racial groups of the Indian subcontinentb)  three main linguistic divisions into which the languages of India can be classifiedc)  three main styles of Indian temple architectured)  three main musical Gharanas prevalent in India