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Shiva Tandava Stotra - Quiz
  • 1. Who is traditionally attributed as the author of the Shiva Tandava Stotra?
A) Ravana
B) Kubera
C) Parvati
D) Nandi
  • 2. What does the word 'tāṇḍava' mean in Sanskrit?
A) A royal chariot
B) A celestial sword
C) A frantic dance
D) A sacred mountain
  • 3. How many quatrains are in the Shiva Tandava Stotra?
A) 17
B) 10
C) 20
D) 16
  • 4. Which Hindu deity is the Shiva Tandava Stotra dedicated to?
A) Brahma
B) Shiva
C) Vishnu
D) Indra
  • 5. What is the name of the celestial sword granted to Ravana by Shiva?
A) Tandava
B) Chandrahasa
C) Kailasha
D) Pushpaka
  • 6. Who cursed Ravana stating that Vanaras would destroy him?
A) Parvati
B) Nandi
C) Kubera
D) Shiva
  • 7. How did Shiva trap Ravana beneath Mount Kailash?
A) By calling the Vanaras
B) By pressing the mountain with his big toe
C) By sending him into the ocean
D) By using a magical cage
  • 8. Which epic records the legend of Ravana and the Shiva Tandava Stotra?
A) Upanishads
B) Bhagavad Gita
C) Ramayana
D) Mahabharata
  • 9. What is the meaning of the word 'stotra'?
A) A hymn of praise
B) A mountain peak
C) A frantic dance
D) A flying chariot
  • 10. How long did Ravana sing hymns to Shiva to seek forgiveness?
A) One year
B) A hundred years
C) A thousand years
D) Ten years
  • 11. Which quatrains conclude with lists of Shiva's epithets as the destroyer?
A) The third and fourth
B) The first and last
C) The fifteenth and sixteenth
D) The ninth and tenth
  • 12. What is the poetic meter of the Shiva Tandava Stotra by definition?
A) Trochaic trimeter
B) Anapestic tetrameter
C) Iambic octameter
D) Dactylic hexameter
  • 13. How many arms did Ravana use to try and lift Mount Kailash?
A) Two
B) Twenty
C) Four
D) Ten
  • 14. Why was Ravana given the name 'Ravana'?
A) Because he had ten heads
B) Because he cried
C) Because he flew the Pushpaka Vimana
D) Because he looted Alaka
  • 15. What was the name of the flying chariot Ravana stole from Kubera?
A) Chandrahasa
B) Tandavam
C) Pushpaka Vimana
D) Kailasha
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