Suvarnasiddhi and Chakradhara
I. Answer in one or two sentences each.
1.Who narrated Berunda’s story to whom?
Answer:Suvamasiddhi told this story to his friend Chakradhara.
2.Where did the big strange bird live?
Answer:The big strange bird lived on the banks of a lake called Sangama.
3.What did the bird find one day?
Answer:One day the bird found a fruit, which was delicious as ambrosia.
4.How did the first head describe the fruit?
Answer:The bird described “Oh! what a fruit, I am sure the heavens have sent it
for me. I am so lucky”.
5.What did the first head decide to do with the fruit?
Answer:The first bird decided to give it to their beloved as they have the same
stomach.
6.How did the second head react to the first head’s
decision?
Answer:The second head was waiting for a chance to take revenge. One day the
second head found a poisonous fruit. He told the first head that he is going to
eat it to avenge his insult. The second head ate it in spite of the warning
from the first head that they both will die if he eats it. The second head
ignored it and ate. In the end both of them died.
7.Who narrated Brahmadatta’s story?
Answer:Chakradhara narrated Brahmadatta’s story.
8.Who was Brahmadatta and where did he live?
Answer:Brahmadatta lived in a city called Varanavarta. Brahmadatta was a small
boy who lived with his old mother.
9.What were Brahmadatta’s-travel plans?
Answer:Brahmadatta was planning to travel to another village.
10.Who was Brahmadatta’s travel companion?
Answer:A crab in a camphor box was the companion of Brahmadatta.
II. Answer in three to four sentences each:
1.Describe Bermuda.
Answer:Bermuda was a big strange bird, lived on the banks of a lake called
Sangama. He had two heads and a single body. He had a wife and her name was
Tatillatha. It is believed that Bermuda, a mythological bird has a magical
stranger. It is used as the official emblem by the Karnataka Government and is
also seen as an intricately sculptured motif in Hindu temples.
2.Describe the first head’s decision.
Answer:When the first head described the fruit as delicious as Ambrosia, the
second head was eager to taste the fruit. But the first head decided to give it
to their beloved wife Tatillata since both the heads have same stomach that
makes no difference.
3.Why was the second head disap¬pointed at the first
head’s decision?
Answer:The second head wanted to eat the fruit as it was very much described
which made him to taste the fruit at any cost. But when first head laughed at
him and refused to give and gave it to their wife Tatillata. This made second
head disappointed.
4.How did the second head have its revenge?
Answer:One day, when the second head found a poisonous fruit it took a chance
at revenge. Second head thought of eating the poisonous fruit so that the first
head will die. Though first advised him not to eat because both have single
stomach so that both will die. Ignoring his words, second head ate the fruit
and both of them died.
5.What advice did Chakradhara give Suvamasiddhi?
Answer:Chakradhara advised Suvarnasiddhi that it is important to have a
companion while travelling.
6.Who was Brahmadatta? What was his mother’s advice to
him?
Answer:Brahmadatta was a boy who lived in a city Varanavartha with his old
mother. As Brahmadatta was planned to go to another village for some urgent
business his mother asked him not to go alone. She gave a crab in a camphor box
as Brahmadatta’s companion to carry with him.
7.How did the mother help Brahmadatta in his travel?
Answer:The mother went to the well in the backyard and took out a crab and
asked her son to keep the crab with him during the travel.
8.How did the crab save Brahmadatta’s life?
Answer:As it was summer the day, and was very hot the boy halted and took rest
under a big tree. From the hollow of the tree, a snake emerged and attracted by
the fragrance of camphor, swallowed the box containing the crab. The crab came out
of box and killed the snake. This is how Brahmadutta was saved by the crab.
III. Answer in five or six sentences:
1.Describe how Berunda met his demise.
Answer:A big strange bird Berunda with two heads and single body. One day, as
he wandering on the banks of the lake, he found a fruit which was very
delicious. When one of the head was praising the fruit so much the other felt
to taste the fruit. But the other hand refused to give the fruit as he was
decided to give it to their beloved wife. Disappointed from this, second head
was awaiting a chance to take revenge. One fine day, when the second head found
a poisonous fruit, he ate it to take revenge for his insult, both of them died.
This is how second head met his demise.
2.Describe how heeding his mother’s advice saved
Brahmadatta.
Answer:The boy Brahmadutta was planning to travel to another village on urgent
business. But his mother adviced him not to go alone though her son said that
the way was safe. Mother went to the well in the backyard and brought a crab
kept in a camphor box. She asked him to carry along with him. As it was summer
the boy hatted and too rest under a big tree. A snake attracted by the
fragrance of camphor swallowed the box containing the crab. The crab came out
of the box and killed the snake, otherwise the snake would have killed the boy.
This is how the mother’s advice saved Brahmadatta’s life.
Iv Multiple Choice Questions
1.Strange bird lived on the banks of __________ .
a) Narmada
b) Kaveri
c) Sindu
d) Sangama
Answer:d) Sangama
2.The body of the bird was __________ .
a) two heads and single body
b) two bodies and single head
c) two bodies with attached two heads
d) none.
Answer:a) two heads and single body
3.One day, first head got a fruit which was as delicious as _____
.a) guava
b) Ambrosia
c) grapes
d) apple
Answer:b) Ambrosia
4.His wife’s name was __________ .
a) Vidyullatha
b) Tatillata
c) Shakunthala
d) Samantham
Answer:b) Tatillata
5.Brahmadatta lived in a city called ____________ .
a) Varanavartha
b)Madhugiri
c) Varanasi
d) Banaras
Answer:a) Varanavartha
6.He travelled along with. _____________ .
a) friend as his companion
b) crab as his companion
c) snake as his companion
d) All the above.
Answer:d) All the above.
7.Snake came out from the hollow of the tree as,
a) it attracted by the sound of flute.
b) it was attracted by fragrance of camphor
c) to kill Brahmadatta
d) All
Answer:d) All
V Match the following:
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A |
B |
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1. Suvamasiddhi |
a) sweet and delicious 2 |
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2. Ambrosia |
b) chakradhara 1 |
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3. Poisonous fruit |
c) wife 5 |
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4. Berunda |
d) second head 3 |
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5. Tatillata |
e) Sangama. 4 |
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