1.What is the shield of man? 2. According to Yudhishthira when can man be ruined?

Question

Read the following passages and answer the questions put there upon:

“OYaksha, ……. then he disappeared.[From para 7] 

Or 

“O Yaksha, ……………….. mayrevive.”[From pura 7]

1.What is the shield of man?

2. According to Yudhishthira when can man be ruined?

3. Why did Yudhishthira ask the Yaksha to bring Nakula back to life? Or Why did Yudhishthira ask for Nakula’s revival ? 

Or 

How did Yudhishthira want to follow his dharma?

4. What quality of Yudhishthira pleased the Yaksha most? How did he reward him for that?

5. Who had taken the form of Yaksha and why?

6. Which words in the passage have the synonyms of the following words : 

(1) protection, 

(2) destroyed. 

7. What will happen if ‘Dharma’ is given up?

8. Who was Nakula?

Answer 1

1. Dharma is the only shield of man.

2. According to Yudhishthira, if dharma is given up, man will be ruined.

3. Yudhishthira wanted to follow his dharma by reviving Nakula, the son of | Madri.

4. Yudhishthira’s impartiality pleased the Yaksha most. So Yaksha rewarded him by reviving his all dead brothers.

5. Yama had taken the form of Yaksha to see and test Yudhishthira.

6. 

1. protection = shield, 

2. destroyed = ruined. 

7. If ‘Dharma’ is given up, man will be ruined.

8. Nakula was the son of Madri.