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Malayalam belongs to which language family? |
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How many languages are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution? |
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| 143 |
Santali and Mundari belong to the |
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Most modern Indian scripts, such as Devanagari, Tamil and Kannada, developed from |
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A linguist finds that a language of Meghalaya shares its family with Santali, not with nearby Bodo. Which lan… |
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Which Vedanga deals with metre? |
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| 147 |
The oldest surviving grammar of the Tamil language is the |
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The "three sages" (munitraya) of Sanskrit grammar are |
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Panini's Ashtadhyayi is so named because it consists of |
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A scholar needs to explain the origin of an obscure Vedic word. Which discipline and text would help most? |
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| 151 |
The consonant "p" belongs to which place of articulation? |
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| 152 |
Sounds produced with a strong puff of breath, such as kh and gh, are called |
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| 153 |
In "He cut the fruit with a knife", the knife is the instrument. In Panini's terms this karaka is |
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Which consonant is voiced and aspirated in the dental group? |
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Why did Panini use pratyaharas such as "ac" derived from the Shiva Sutras? |
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| 156 |
How many syllables does a Gayatri verse of three lines with eight syllables each contain? |
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| 157 |
In matra counting, a guru (heavy) syllable counts as |
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Using only light and heavy syllables, how many different patterns are possible for a line of 4 syllables? |
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| 159 |
The common shloka of the epics is a form of which metre? |
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Pingala groups syllables in threes, each light or heavy. How many such groups are possible, and why? |
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