Daityas Dynasty MCQ Questions and Answers

1. Which sage is traditionally named as the father (through marriage to Diti) of the Daityas?
A) Atri
B) Pulastya
C) Kashyapa
D) Vashistha
Answer: Kashyapa

2. The Daityas are primarily descended from which mother figure in Hindu mythology?
A) Danu
B) Aditi
C) Diti
D) Diti’s sister, Danu
Answer: Diti

3. Who among the following is considered a prominent Daitya king and the father of Prahlada?
A) Virochana
B) Hiranyakashipu
C) Bali (Mahabali)
D) Vritra
Answer: Hiranyakashipu

4. Which Daitya was slain by Vishnu’s Varaha (boar) avatar according to Purāṇic accounts?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Hiranyaksha
C) Virochana
D) Mahabali
Answer: Hiranyaksha

5. Prahlada, a celebrated Daitya, is best known for his devotion to which deity?
A) Shiva
B) Vishnu
C) Indra
D) Agni
Answer: Vishnu

6. Which avatar of Vishnu is primarily associated with the defeat of Hiranyakashipu?
A) Narasimha
B) Narasimha
C) Vamana
D) Varaha
Answer: Narasimha

7. Mahabali (Bali), a famous Daitya king, is most closely linked to which annual festival in Kerala?
A) Diwali
B) Pongal
C) Onam
D) Navaratri
Answer: Onam

8. Vamana, the dwarf avatar of Vishnu, beggared which Daitya king by asking for three paces of land?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Hiranyaksha
D) Virochana
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

9. Virochana — a Daitya — is traditionally described as the son of which devotee-king?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Prahlada
C) Hiranyakashipu
D) Bali
Answer: Prahlada

10. The primary distinction between Daityas and Danavas in Puranic genealogies is that Daityas descend from Diti while Danavas descend from:
A) Aditi
B) Danu
C) Diti’s brother
D) Kashyapa
Answer: Danu

11. Which scriptural text gives one of the fullest Purāṇic accounts of Prahlada, Hiranyakashipu and related Daitya stories?
A) Ramayana
B) Bhagavata Purana
C) Arthashastra
D) Brahma Sutra
Answer: Bhagavata Purana

12. The Daityas are often contrasted with the Devas; literarily this contrast most directly represents the conflict between:
A) Knowledge and ignorance
B) Order (Devas) and disruptive power or pride (Daityas)
C) Light and darkness
D) Good and evil only in ethical terms
Answer: Order (Devas) and disruptive power or pride (Daityas)

13. In legend, which Daitya king invited Vamana and was granted a boon that led to his being pushed to the netherworld (Pātāla)?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Virochana
D) Prahlada
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

14. Which Daitya’s tyranny and subsequent downfall is commonly used as a moral about hubris and the limits of boons?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu
C) Virochana
D) Banasura
Answer: Hiranyakashipu

15. Which of the following is a Daitya associated with the ritual and mythic city of Lanka in some later retellings?
A) Ravana (primarily a Rakshasa)
B) None—Lanka’s rulers are not typically Daityas in classic texts
C) Hiranyakasha
D) Mahabali
Answer: None—Lanka’s rulers are not typically Daityas in classic texts

16. In some accounts the Daityas produced mighty sages and seers who opposed the Devas — who among the following is a Daitya seer or leader often named in Purāṇic conflict stories?
A) Marichi
B) Sambara
C) Agastya
D) Markandeya
Answer: Sambara

17. Which Purānic motif is most frequently present in Daitya origin-stories and their conflicts with the gods?
A) Flood myth
B) Boons from ascetic penances and consequent arrogance
C) Creation of a new sun
D) Wars over agriculture
Answer: Boons from ascetic penances and consequent arrogance

18. The term “Daitya” linguistically means:
A) Son of Danu
B) Descendant/child of Diti
C) Enemy of Devas
D) Lord of demons
Answer: Descendant/child of Diti

19. Which of these Daityas is recorded as a friend or ally of the great Daitya king Mahabali in many accounts?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Virochana
C) Prahlada
D) Ravana
Answer: Virochana

20. Which Daitya is typically credited with an episode in which he swallowed the earth and was opposed by Vishnu’s Varaha?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Hiranyaksha
C) Vritra
D) Bali
Answer: Hiranyaksha

21. In philosophical readings, Prahlada’s devotion despite being a Daitya is often used to illustrate:
A) The futility of devotion
B) That genuine bhakti (devotion) transcends birth and lineage
C) That all Daityas are evil by nature
D) That devotion is only for Devas
Answer: That genuine bhakti (devotion) transcends birth and lineage

22. Which of the following Daityas is famed for having obtained a boon that made him nearly invincible — ultimately leading to his death by an extraordinary form of Vishnu?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu
C) Bali
D) Virochana
Answer: Hiranyakashipu

23. The story of Bali and Vamana is primarily narrated in which Purāṇa and Itihāsa traditions?
A) Only Mahabharata
B) Bhagavata Purana and Ramayana retellings
C) Arthashastra
D) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Answer: Bhagavata Purana and Ramayana retellings

24. Which Daitya king is associated with an act of charity and later rulership in the netherworld, celebrated for his righteousness despite being an Asura?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Hiranyaksha
D) Sambara
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

25. Daityas, when compared to Devas, are sometimes described as:
A) Always weaker spiritually
B) Powerful beings who often represent resistance to Vedic/Deva order
C) Purely metaphorical and never personified
D) Always morally upright
Answer: Powerful beings who often represent resistance to Vedic/Deva order

26. Which Daitya’s son became a celebrated devotee and teacher known across Purāṇic stories for his piety?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu (father of Prahlada)
C) Virochana
D) Mahabali
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (father of Prahlada)

27. In Purāṇic genealogies, Kashyapa fathered many tribes; the Daityas belong to which branch?
A) Aditi’s branch
B) Diti’s branch
C) Danu’s branch
D) Diti and Danu combined branch
Answer: Diti’s branch

28. Which Daitya ruler’s surrender of three paces of land is often read as a lesson about the importance of honoring one’s promises?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Prahlada
D) Virochana
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

29. Which of the following is a well-known theme in Daitya narratives?
A) Economic reforms by Daitya kings
B) Ascetic austerities, boons, hubris, and divine retribution
C) Agricultural treaties with Devas
D) Maritime exploration
Answer: Ascetic austerities, boons, hubris, and divine retribution

30. The Daitya Hiranyakashipu demanded worship in place of Vishnu; which unusual condition of his boon made the manner of his death unique?
A) He could be killed by fire only
B) He could not be killed by any weapon
C) The boon prevented death by man or beast, day or night, inside or outside, on earth or sky, or by any weapon
D) He was immortal in dream only
Answer: The boon prevented death by man or beast, day or night, inside or outside, on earth or sky, or by any weapon

31. Which Daitya is said to have performed severe penance and gained strength to rule the three worlds before being subdued by the gods?
A) Vritra
B) Mahabali
C) Indra
D) Atri
Answer: Mahabali

32. Which of the following is the correct relational order from eldest to youngest in a common Daitya genealogy: Hiranyakashipu, Prahlada, Virochana, Bali?
A) Bali → Virochana → Prahlada → Hiranyakashipu
B) Hiranyakashipu → Prahlada → Virochana → Bali
C) Prahlada → Hiranyakashipu → Bali → Virochana
D) Virochana → Bali → Prahlada → Hiranyakashipu
Answer: Hiranyakashipu → Prahlada → Virochana → Bali

33. In several texts, Daityas are known to inhabit which realm apart from their conflicts with Devas?
A) Svarga (heaven) only
B) Pātāla (netherworld) or subterranean realms
C) Mount Meru only
D) The solar world exclusively
Answer: Pātāla (netherworld) or subterranean realms

34. Which Daitya’s narrative involves being rescued or saved because of his steadfast devotion rather than punished for lineage?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Prahlada
C) Virochana
D) Hiranyakashipu
Answer: Prahlada

35. The philosophical lesson often drawn from Prahlada’s childhood is that true knowledge and devotion:
A) Depend on birth alone
B) Can arise in anyone, regardless of birth
C) Are restricted to priests only
D) Are irrelevant to salvation
Answer: Can arise in anyone, regardless of birth

36. Which Daitya is connected with the story where Indra’s power is temporarily lost due to the Asuras’ penances?
A) Vritra (often Danava)
B) Virochana and the Daityas collectively
C) Prahlada alone
D) None — Devas always maintain power
Answer: Virochana and the Daityas collectively

37. Which Daitya king is associated with the protection of his subjects and an eventual rule in Pātāla despite being sent there by Vamana?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Virochana
D) Sambara
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

38. Which classical Purāṇa contrasts Devas and Daityas repeatedly to teach dharma and the proper use of power?
A) Kama Sutra
B) Bhagavata Purana
C) Charaka Samhita
D) Natyashastra
Answer: Bhagavata Purana

39. Which of these Daityas is connected with a flood-like narrative in some regional tellings but is not a primary canonical Daitya in main Purāṇas?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Regional named Daityas like certain local chieftains—no single canonical name
C) Prahlada
D) Bali
Answer: Regional named Daityas like certain local chieftains—no single canonical name

40. Some later tantric and local traditions reframe Daityas as:
A) Irrelevant mythic figures only
B) Complex figures with local cults and moral ambiguity, sometimes protective
C) Always evil spirits to be exorcised
D) Deified like Devas in the Rigveda
Answer: Complex figures with local cults and moral ambiguity, sometimes protective

41. Which Daitya is credited in some accounts with instigating cosmic battles requiring multiple avatars to correct dharma?
A) Prahlada
B) Hiranyakashipu and his line generally
C) Virochana only
D) Mahabali alone
Answer: Hiranyakashipu and his line generally

42. In iconography, Daityas are often shown as:
A) Identical to Devas in all features
B) Powerful, sometimes fearsome figures—variously human and monstrous—depending on the text
C) Serpents exclusively
D) Invisible and never depicted
Answer: Powerful, sometimes fearsome figures—variously human and monstrous—depending on the text

43. Which Daitya features in a moral debate about whether rulership should be judged solely by power or by righteousness?
A) Hiranyaksha only
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Prahlada only
D) Vritra only
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

44. The conflict between Daityas and Devas is often read by scholars as symbolizing:
A) Economic exchange only
B) A cosmic dialectic between competing social/ritual orders
C) Seasonal changes exclusively
D) Meteorological phenomena only
Answer: A cosmic dialectic between competing social/ritual orders

45. Which Daitya attempted to usurp the position of Indra by severe penance and hence drew divine intervention?
A) Prahlada
B) Virochana and other Daitya leaders in various episodes
C) Vritra only
D) None — Daityas never performed penance
Answer: Virochana and other Daitya leaders in various episodes

46. Which of the following is true about Daitya women in Purāṇic stories?
A) They never appear
B) They appear as mothers and occasionally as powerful figures influencing events (e.g., Diti)
C) They are always depicted as Devas
D) They are identical to Danava women always
Answer: They appear as mothers and occasionally as powerful figures influencing events (e.g., Diti)

47. In comparative mythology, Daityas are most similar to which archetype?
A) Trickster who brings culture
B) Chthonic or anti-establishment forces challenging cosmic order
C) Purely benevolent creator beings
D) Neutral background figures
Answer: Chthonic or anti-establishment forces challenging cosmic order

48. Which Daitya’s story involves his being granted near invulnerability and then being killed at twilight on a threshold by an avatar that is neither fully man nor beast?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu
C) Prahlada
D) Mahabali
Answer: Hiranyakashipu

49. Which Daitya exemplifies the idea that moral worth is independent of caste or birth in many devotional readings?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Prahlada
C) Virochana
D) Bali only as a political figure
Answer: Prahlada

50. In some texts, after his defeat by Vamana, Mahabali is granted which special role by Vishnu?
A) Destroyer of worlds
B) Guardian of Pātāla and a beloved, righteous ruler honored annually
C) Indra’s successor on Svarga
D) Chief of all Devas
Answer: Guardian of Pātāla and a beloved, righteous ruler honored annually

51. Which Daitya was involved in mythology where the Devas and Asuras churned the ocean (Samudra Manthan) — specifically as antagonists opposing the Devas?
A) Hiranyakashipu only
B) Daityas as a class opposed the Devas in episodes like Samudra Manthan (though Danavas are more explicit participants)
C) Prahlada only
D) Bali only
Answer: Daityas as a class opposed the Devas in episodes like Samudra Manthan (though Danavas are more explicit participants)

52. The ethical teaching from many Daitya narratives emphasizes that power without _____ is dangerous.
A) Wealth
B) Righteous conduct (dharma)
C) Magic
D) Territory
Answer: Righteous conduct (dharma)

53. Which Daitya is traditionally linked in folklore with the concept of an underworld king who remains noble despite displacement?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Prahlada
D) Hiranyakashipu
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

54. The Daitya name “Sambara” often appears in Purāṇic lists as a leader. Which role does he typically play?
A) Divine messenger
B) Asura/Daitya commander who battles the gods
C) Vedic priest
D) Merchant king
Answer: Asura/Daitya commander who battles the gods

55. In many stories, what is the primary source of Daityas’ extraordinary power?
A) Modern weapons
B) Ascetic penances (tapas) and boons from gods
C) Technology from other worlds
D) Natural resources exclusively
Answer: Ascetic penances (tapas) and boons from gods

56. Which Daitya’s narrative is often used to teach filial piety and the conflict between fatherly authority and divine devotion?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu (and his relationship with Prahlada)
C) Bali
D) Virochana
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (and his relationship with Prahlada)

57. Which Daitya is sometimes conflated with other demon-types in later folk retellings, illustrating fluidity between categories (Daitya, Danava, Rakshasa)?
A) Prahlada only
B) Sambara and other generic leaders in regional tales
C) None—categories never mix
D) Vritra only
Answer: Sambara and other generic leaders in regional tales

58. The Vamana-Bali episode is often analyzed as a story about:
A) Military conquest only
B) The limits of temporal power and the efficacy of divine strategy
C) Agricultural redistribution only
D) Astronomy hidden code
Answer: The limits of temporal power and the efficacy of divine strategy

59. Which Daitya was rescued by Vishnu’s Narasimha avatar indirectly through the protection of devotion?
A) Mahabali
B) Prahlada
C) Hiranyaksha
D) Sambara
Answer: Prahlada

60. Which structural device do Purāṇas often use in Daitya narratives to show transformation of cosmic roles?
A) Legal codes only
B) Avatars and boons leading to temporary shifts in power
C) Agricultural metaphors only
D) Astrological charts only
Answer: Avatars and boons leading to temporary shifts in power

61. In some commentaries, Daityas’ repeated conflicts with Devas are interpreted as cycles of:
A) Economic policy changes
B) Ritual and social reordering across ages (yugas)
C) Climate cycles only
D) Seasonal agriculture cycles only
Answer: Ritual and social reordering across ages (yugas)

62. Which of the following Daityas is often credited with establishing a just rule in Pātāla after being displaced from the upper world?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Vritra
D) Hiranyaksha
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

63. The Daitya tradition includes narratives used by bhakti literature to make what point about the nature of God?
A) God favors only Devas
B) God responds to sincere devotion regardless of the devotee’s birth
C) God never intervenes in Asura affairs
D) God is indifferent to moral behavior
Answer: God responds to sincere devotion regardless of the devotee’s birth

64. Which Daitya’s death is depicted as violating the exact terms of a granted boon, thereby demonstrating divine ingenuity in mythic justice?
A) Bali
B) Hiranyaksha
C) Hiranyakashipu
D) Prahlada
Answer: Hiranyakashipu

65. In theological readings, why are Daityas important to the narrative economy of the Purāṇas?
A) They provide comic relief only
B) They function as essential antagonists who highlight divine virtues and limits of power
C) They are irrelevant extras
D) They teach farming techniques
Answer: They function as essential antagonists who highlight divine virtues and limits of power

66. Which Daitya’s story provides a vivid scene in which a child’s unshakeable devotion prompts the manifesting of the deity in a new form?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Prahlada (Narasimha’s appearance)
C) Bali
D) Virochana
Answer: Prahlada (Narasimha’s appearance)

67. The word “Asura” in the earliest Vedic literature had ambivalent meanings; by the Purāṇic age Daityas were:
A) Fully synonymous with Devas
B) Clearly depicted as opponents of Devas in many narratives
C) Human kings only
D) Forgotten entirely
Answer: Clearly depicted as opponents of Devas in many narratives

68. Which Daitya is said in some stories to have challenged Indra and temporarily seized Svarga through penance?
A) Hiranyaksha only
B) Virochana and other Daitya leaders
C) Prahlada only
D) None—this never happens
Answer: Virochana and other Daitya leaders

69. Which Daitya is sometimes depicted sympathetically in regional folklore, emphasizing generosity and humility?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Sambara
D) Hiranyakashipu
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

70. Which Daitya is central to a narrative that demonstrates God’s transcendence of ordinary categories (neither man nor beast)?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu (and the Narasimha avatar)
C) Mahabali
D) Virochana
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (and the Narasimha avatar)

71. The Daityas, as a literary device, often force gods into what kind of moral action?
A) Passive observation
B) Direct divine intervention and avataric descent
C) Migration only
D) Silence only
Answer: Direct divine intervention and avataric descent

72. Which Daitya is reported in some texts to have been a patron of learning before turning to conquest?
A) Hiranyakashipu exclusively
B) Some Daitya kings are depicted as cultured patrons in certain accounts
C) None—Daityas never patronized learning
D) Only Danavas did so
Answer: Some Daitya kings are depicted as cultured patrons in certain accounts

73. Which Daitya’s defeat involves being crushed on a threshold, highlighting the loophole in his boon?
A) Mahabali
B) Hiranyaksha
C) Hiranyakashipu (killed by Narasimha on a threshold at dusk)
D) Virochana
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (killed by Narasimha on a threshold at dusk)

74. Which of the following best summarizes Daitya interactions with sages?
A) Daityas always avoid sages
B) Daityas perform penances to obtain boons, often provoking sage-mediated consequences
C) Daityas only study under sages peacefully
D) Daityas are themselves sages exclusively
Answer: Daityas perform penances to obtain boons, often provoking sage-mediated consequences

75. Which Daitya family member is the archetypal devoted child in Purāṇic literature?
A) Virochana
B) Prahlada
C) Bali
D) Hiranyaksha
Answer: Prahlada

76. Which interpretive lens reads Daityas as representatives of old local polities displaced by Vedic-centered Deva power?
A) Literalist only
B) Historical-anthropological reading
C) Astronomical reading only
D) Purely psychological reading only
Answer: Historical-anthropological reading

77. Which of the following is an accurate statement about Daityas and boons?
A) They never receive boons
B) They frequently receive boons as rewards for austere tapas, which makes them potent adversaries
C) Boons always fail to work for them
D) Boons are only given by humans
Answer: They frequently receive boons as rewards for austere tapas, which makes them potent adversaries

78. Which Daitya is particularly associated with a narrative teaching about the cosmic balance between giving and restraint?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Prahlada only
D) Sambara only
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

79. Which Daitya is an example of theological paradox because he is both enemy and ultimately honored by the deity he opposed?
A) Hiranyakashipu
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Hiranyaksha
D) None — enemies are never honored
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

80. In some texts, Daityas are linked to which cosmic function?
A) Creating sunlight only
B) Challenging and thus renewing cosmic order through conflict
C) Only growing crops
D) Only building cities
Answer: Challenging and thus renewing cosmic order through conflict

81. Which Daitya’s story is often cited when discussing the theological theme that divine grace can override karmic and natal determinism?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Prahlada
C) Virochana
D) Sambara
Answer: Prahlada

82. The Puranic cycles involving Daityas frequently end with what kind of literary resolution?
A) Permanent victory for Daityas
B) Temporary victory for Daityas followed by restoration of Deva order through avatars
C) No resolution ever
D) Division of the cosmos into two permanent halves
Answer: Temporary victory for Daityas followed by restoration of Deva order through avatars

83. Which Daitya was famed for his generosity and became a symbol of righteous kingship in spite of being an Asura?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali
C) Hiranyakashipu
D) Sambara
Answer: Mahabali

84. Which of the following is true about Daityas in Mahabharata and Ramayana references?
A) They are absent from both epics
B) They are sometimes mentioned but are more fully elaborated in Purāṇas
C) They are the primary protagonists of both epics
D) They are worshipped as Devas in the epics
Answer: They are sometimes mentioned but are more fully elaborated in Purāṇas

85. Which Daitya’s confrontation results in the manifestation of an avatar who is half-man, half-lion?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Hiranyakashipu (Narasimha)
C) Mahabali
D) Virochana
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (Narasimha)

86. A scholarly reading that treats Daityas as socio-political metaphors would most likely say they embody:
A) Technological innovation only
B) Counter-elite or rival political/religious forces
C) Astronomic calculations only
D) Farming techniques only
Answer: Counter-elite or rival political/religious forces

87. Which Daitya’s narrative contains a celebrated dialogue between child and father on the nature of God and authority?
A) Virochana and Vasistha only
B) Hiranyakashipu and Prahlada
C) Bali and Indra only
D) None — no such dialogue exists
Answer: Hiranyakashipu and Prahlada

88. In devotional arts, Prahlada’s image commonly serves as an icon of:
A) Warlike heroism only
B) Unshakable devotion and faith in adversity
C) Political realism only
D) Agricultural fertility only
Answer: Unshakable devotion and faith in adversity

89. Which Daitya is associated with teaching humility to rulers through a disguise of beggary (an avatar asks alms)?
A) Hiranyaksha
B) Mahabali (when Vamana requests alms)
C) Prahlada only
D) Sambara only
Answer: Mahabali (when Vamana requests alms)

90. Daityas’ moral complexity in texts helps illustrate that:
A) Myth only wants simple villains
B) Moral character is independent of cosmic classification (Deva/Asura)
C) Daityas are uniformly evil
D) Devas are never flawed
Answer: Moral character is independent of cosmic classification (Deva/Asura)

91. Which Daitya is traditionally the immediate cause of Narasimha’s intervention in the cosmic order?
A) Mahabali
B) Hiranyakashipu’s persecution of Prahlada
C) Virochana’s mercy
D) Vritra’s drought
Answer: Hiranyakashipu’s persecution of Prahlada

92. In folk retellings, Mahabali’s banishment is sometimes turned into a story of:
A) Permanent ruin and disgrace only
B) Triumphant humility and a model of ideal kingship despite loss of empire
C) Total annihilation of his people
D) Unrelated agricultural festival
Answer: Triumphant humility and a model of ideal kingship despite loss of empire

93. Which Daitya’s lineage is most commonly traced in a straight genealogical line in Purāṇic lists?
A) Vritra exclusively
B) Hiranyakashipu → Prahlada → Virochana → Bali
C) Mahabali only
D) Sambara only
Answer: Hiranyakashipu → Prahlada → Virochana → Bali

94. Which Daitya’s encounter with a deity is often cited in sermons to illustrate that the divine may operate through paradoxical forms?
A) Hiranyaksha only
B) Hiranyakashipu (Narasimha’s paradoxical form)
C) Virochana only
D) Mahabali only
Answer: Hiranyakashipu (Narasimha’s paradoxical form)

95. Which Daitya’s story is used to emphasize that divine law can be restored without destroying the moral value of certain rulers?
A) Hiranyaksha only
B) Mahabali (preserved and honored after Vamana episode)
C) Hiranyakashipu only
D) Sambara only
Answer: Mahabali (preserved and honored after Vamana episode)

96. The Daityas’ repeated acquisition of boons and subsequent defeats most often dramatizes which theological idea?
A) Boons are always permanent privileges
B) Even great power is subordinate to cosmic law and divine will
C) Deities cannot be outwitted
D) The world is entirely chaotic without order
Answer: Even great power is subordinate to cosmic law and divine will

97. Which Daitya event is used to legitimize avatar doctrine (i.e., God incarnates to restore dharma)?
A) Virochana’s coronation only
B) The Narasimha and Vamana interventions against Hiranyakashipu and Mahabali
C) Sambara’s trade agreements only
D) None — avatars are not used here
Answer: The Narasimha and Vamana interventions against Hiranyakashipu and Mahabali

98. Which Daitya’s lineage is sometimes traced in local South Indian and Kerala legends to explain the origin of cultural practices like Onam?
A) Hiranyaksha only
B) Mahabali (Bali)
C) Virochana only
D) Prahlada only
Answer: Mahabali (Bali)

99. In comparative religious studies, Daityas are often studied alongside which other mythic antagonists to explore archetypal resistance to cosmic order?
A) Greek Titans
B) Greek Titans and Norse giants (Jötnar)
C) Modern novel villains only
D) None—comparisons are impossible
Answer: Greek Titans and Norse giants (Jötnar)

100. Which overarching lesson do many Daitya stories collectively convey across Purāṇic literature?
A) Only Devas can be righteous
B) The cyclical nature of power: challenge, temporary dominance, and restoration through dharma and divine action
C) Mythology is random storytelling only
D) Power always remains with Asuras permanently
Answer: The cyclical nature of power: challenge, temporary dominance, and restoration through dharma and divine action