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This set of Indian aesthetics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Indian Aesthetics Set 7

Q1 | Abhihitanvaya theory is advocatedby ____________ .
  • prabhakara
  • kumarila
  • bhamaha
  • bharatha
Q2 | Anvitabhidanatheory is advocated by _______________ .
  • prabhakara
  • kumarila
  • bhamaha
  • bharatha
Q3 | According to Patanjalisabda is _____ .
  • nitya
  • anitya
  • both
  • none
Q4 | the relation between word and meaning is eternal according to _________.
  • panini
  • katyayana
  • patanjali
  • all three
Q5 | ________is the causeof utterance and the cause of understanding
  • sphota
  • abhitha
  • lakshana
  • vyanjana
Q6 | __________ is the author of ashtadhyayi
  • yaska
  • patanjali
  • panini
  • bharatha
Q7 | _________ is the author of Mahabhasya .
  • patanjali
  • yaska
  • panini
  • bharatha
Q8 | Katyayana’s __________ is an elaboration of Panini’s ashtdhyayi.
  • varttika
  • karika
  • vritti
  • bhasya
Q9 | The first kanda of vakyapadiya is ________
  • vakyakanda
  • brahma kanda
  • jnanakanda
  • bhakti kanda
Q10 | __________ kanda of vakyapdiya contains different conceptions of sentence.
  • vakyakanda
  • brahma kanda
  • padakanda
  • bhakti kanda
Q11 | Vakypadiya represents a kind of _________ in which language principlestands ultimately as the source of entire material existence.
  • linguistic monism
  • metaphysical dualism
  • epistemological dualism
  • none
Q12 | The doctrine of _____________ asserts that the ultimate reality, brahman , is theimperishable principle of language.
  • atman
  • sabdabrahman
  • jiva
  • none of these
Q13 | _________ stands for real word and _________ stands for physical sound
  • sphota , dhwani
  • dhwani , sphota
  • madhyama , vaikhari
  • none of these
Q14 | According to bartrahari as a linguistic reality the sentence is a __________ unit.
  • indivisible ,
  • divisible
  • both
  • none of these
Q15 | A linguistic expression conceived as a single unit is referred as _________.
  • pada
  • vakya
  • sphota
  • varna
Q16 | ____________ consider a sentence to be primary unit and believe that words areanalytically derived from sentences.
  • vakyavadins
  • padavadins
  • both
  • none of these
Q17 | According to padavadin sentence meaning is understood only when all the ____come together.
  • sentences
  • words
  • both
  • none of these
Q18 | __________ is the author of dhvanyaloka.
  • abhinavagupta
  • anandhavardhana
  • mahimabhatta
  • mukulabhatta
Q19 | __________ is a commentary on Dhvanyaloka by Abhinavagupta .
  • locana
  • bharathi
  • kavyaprakasa
  • vakyapadiya
Q20 | Hrdayadarpana of __________ is critical of the theory of suggestion.
  • bhattanayaka
  • bhattalollata
  • abhinavagupta
  • anandhavardhana
Q21 | __________ a reputed logician of Kashmir was of the opinion that dhvani doesnot deserve any serious attenssion at all.
  • mahimabhatta
  • mukulabhatta
  • jayanyhabhatta
  • bhattalollata
Q22 | According to bhattanayaka poetic language has the three fold power of Abhitha ,bhavakatva and ______________
  • rasa dhvani
  • bhojakatva
  • alamkara
  • vakrokti
Q23 | Mahimabhatta is the author of ------------.
  • kavyaprakasa
  • vyaktivivieka
  • alamkarasastra
  • kavyasastra
Q24 | Nyaya admits two kinds of meaning ___________ and __________’
  • abhita and vyanjana
  • abhita and laksana
  • lakshana and vyanjana
  • none
Q25 | According to ________________ dhvani is a type of inference
  • mahimabhatta
  • mukulabhatta
  • bhattanayaka
  • bhattalollata