UPSC Prelims GS Mock Test - 2025

Question 4
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Which one of the following explains the practice of 'Vattakirutal' as mentioned in Sangam poems?

    a
    Kings employing women bodyguards
    b
    Learned persons assembling in royal courts to discuss religious and philosophical matters
    c
    Young girls keeping watch over agricultural fields and driving away birds and animals
    d
    A king defeated in a battle committing ritual suicide by starving himself to death