Shodashoupachara Pooja
Grade 9 Topics
Ramayana
Mahabharata
Prayers/BMI
100

Final Step of the Pooja

What is Pradakshina and Namaskara

100

This practice of transferring knowledge from teacher to student in Hindu traditional systems has existed for a long time

What is the 'Guru Shishya parampara'?

100

The main villain in Ramayana

Who is ravana?

100

Duryodhana's maternal uncle

Who is Shakuni?

100

I stands for this in the Chinmaya BMI chart

What is intellect?

200

Spreading incense /fragrant smoke throughout the altar

What is Dhoopa?

200

gandhari curses this person who she holds responsible for the death of all her 100 sons

Who is Lord Krishna?

200

He kidnaps Sita

Who is Maricha?

200

The main guru of the pandavas and kauravas

Who is Dronacharya?

200

The main evil preventing us from realizing the true atma / soul

What is ego/ahankara? or Vasanas? (Either is acceptable)

300

The first step of the Pooja

What is Dhyana (meditating on the diety to be invoked/invited)?

300

Translation of this 18 chapter epic epic into English is 'The Celestial Song'.

What is the Bhagvad Gita

300

The 2 kids of Rama

Who are Lava and Kusha?

300

 Bhishma's mother

Who is ganga?

300

Mind is associated with this

What are feelings and emotions?

400

The step of the pooja associated with sight

What is Deepa or Deepam (showing the lighted lapm)?

400

Ratnakara the bandit becomes this sage who composes a great Hindu epic

Who is Valmiki?

400

Hanuman's mother

Who is Anjana?

400

Pandu's 2nd wife and the mother of Nakula and Sahadeva

Who is Madri?

400

Chinmaya opening prayer asking for forgiveness for sins committed by us

What is the prayer starting with 'Kar charan kritimva'?

500

Which step is associated with 'touch'

What is Gandham (applying sandalwood paste) followed by Haldi/Kumkum?

500

Ashtavakra defeats this person in a debate and teaches him a lesson to not kill people who lose in debates to him

Who is Bandi?

500

Ravana's wife

Who is Mandodari?

500

Bhima's son who is killed by Karna in the war at night using his divine astra and saving Arjuna

Who is Ghatotkatcha?

500

Meaning of Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya

What is 'Take us from darkness to light' in Sanskrit?

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