Question

Samaveda and Natya Shastra are both related to ………………………
A.Music
B.Painting
C.Stone architecture
D.Religious rituals

Answer 1

Hint:Music can be replicated in ancient India, including the Indian subcontinent, through written works dating from the classical Indian period, such as the Natya Shastra, and from surviving samples of liturgical music such as the Samaveda hymns.

Complete answer:
Samaveda: The Samaveda is the Veda with chants and melodies. It is an ancient Sanskrit Vedic text and a part of Hinduism's scriptures. One of the four Vedas, which consists of 1,549 lines, is a liturgical book. All but 75 of the Rigveda verses were taken. Three Samaveda reviews have survived, and in different parts of India, variant Veda manuscripts have been discovered.

Although it is assumed that its earliest sections date from as early as the Rigvedic era, the existing collection dates from the Vedic Sanskrit post-Rigvedic Mantra period, between c. 1200 and 1000 BCE or, approximately contemporary with the Atharvaveda and the Yajurveda, 'slightly much later.'

Natya Shastra: The text consists of 36 chapters detailing performing arts, with a combined number of 6000 literary verses. Dramatic composition, the arrangement of a play and the design of a stage to house it, genres of performing, body gestures, make-up and costumes, the function and aims of an art director, the musical scales, musical devices, and the combination of music with art performance are the topics addressed by the treatise.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Note: Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit Vedic text known. In every Indo-European language, its early layers are one of the oldest existing documents. Since the 2nd millennium BCE, Rigveda's sounds and texts have been orally transmitted.