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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 17 of 200

Q17
History of IndiaVedic Age
The Vedas were
  1. a.Sacred Book of the Aryans
  2. b.Genealogical History
  3. c.Artefacts
  4. d.Language

Answer: (A) Sacred Book of the Aryans

The Vedas are the sacred texts of the early Aryans: the Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva Vedas, of which the Rigveda is the oldest. They were passed down orally for centuries before being written. Genealogies of kings are found mainly in the Puranas, not the Vedas. They are texts, not artefacts, and they are composed in Vedic Sanskrit rather than being a language themselves.

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