Myth

1.Connect the pics to a historic event

Identify this famous couplet/poet/book

Cleansing the mirror of my mind with the dust from the lotus feet of the revered Guru, I sing Sri Ram's

untarnished glory, that bestows the four rewards of human life

3.

• The Hindu version of the ‘Noah’s ark’ had Lord Vishnu incarnate as a matsya (fish), appearing before the progenitor, X, who was instructed to take "all medicinal herbs, all the varieties of seeds, and accompanied by the seven saints” along with the serpent Vasuki and other animals.

• Identify X, the first human according to Hindu mythology.

• 4.Known as one of the youngest revolutionaries against the British raj, Y was born in Midnapore, West Bengal. A close aide of Savarkar and and active member of the Anushilan Samithi. Made a foiled attempt to assassinate Kingsford, Magistrate of the Calcutta presidency. He was tried and executed at the tender age of 19. Name Y, after whom a famous road in Muzaffarpur is named.

5.These are named after a national hero (not Indian) Z. Z=?

6.Connect these names.

• Lord Alloway

• Sir Edward Ferrier

• John Hammett

• Mr Humberly

• David McAdam

Hint: Sherlock Holmes’ fans can find the 6th name in the “Adventure of the second stain”

7.

• Lord Vishnu’s mount, Garuda, had an elder brother X, born with a half a body because of his mother’s impatience to bear a son before her co-wife. X cursed his mother with bondage of slavery to her co-wife, and stated that only his brother could emanicipate her. Name X.

8.

• After seducing X in disguise, Y was cursed by her husband to bear marks of the female sex organ all over his body. Y then pleased Lord Shiva after a severe penance, who gave him a boon that would convert the vulva-marks into eye-marks. Thus , Y came to be known as ‘Sahasraksha’ or ‘the one with the thousand eyes’. Identify X and y.

• 9.According to legends, the Ganges flowed midway of the path to the abode of Yama, where the sinners underwent their trial. However, since they had to swim across the Ganga on their way, all the sinners’ sins were cleansed, and hell went empty. The gods therefore made a provision. The sinners would perceive the Ganges only as a canal of blood and sewerage. The Garuda purana also endorses this legend, prescribing drowning in this river for sinners using official stature to attain unfair advantage. Name this “River of perdition”

If there exists a place called heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.

• The quote is attributed to the first of the names on this list.

• Dara, Murad, Shuja, Y.

• Complete the series by identifying Y.

11.Identify what was happening here,and why.

In the late 17th century, a reinstated king gave his predecessor a ‘posthumous execution’. After hanging "from morning till four in the afternoon”, the body was cut down and the heads placed on a 20-foot (6.1 m) spike above Westminster Hall.In1685 a storm broke the pole upon which it stood, throwing the head to the ground, after which it belonged to private collectors and museum owners until 25 March 1960, when it was buried at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge. Who’s head was it?

13.

• The famous temple town of Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh has a deity as its ‘kshetrapalaka’ or ‘The ruler of the region’. As a rule, devotees worship this deity before proceeding to the main deity, i.e., Balaji. Name this deity, one of the Dashavatars of Lord Vishnu.

Identify X.

• X was a champion of human-kind known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day.

• Hint: Z=61.

Geometrically, it can be regarded as an irregular icosagon or 20-sided polygon.

The mongram has a nordic origin, meaning well-being.

The symbol appears ONLY on the flag of the Finnish air force.

What is it?

Tie-breaker.

This guy was an Austrian by birth. He lost one of his testicles in the World War I, and his sense of hearing in one of the assassination attempts made late in his life. He wrote a best-seller autobiography.

Who is he?