blood - 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)

Question

This substance nourishes attendants and the figure producing it in chinna-mastika images. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this substance called rakta in Sanskrit. The asura Raktabeeja acquires a boon from Brahma letting him make copies of himself with this substance, but he is defeated when a goddess consumes it before it hits the ground.

ANSWER: blood [or human blood; or blood of gods, Devis, demons, or asuras]

[10e] Raktabeeja was defeated by Chandi and this form of Devi, who is usually depicted naked with a blood-stained tongue and a necklace of human heads.

ANSWER: Kali

[10m] Kali names the current and worst of these eras in Hindu cosmology. The word for truth, Satya, names the first of these cyclical periods, which lasted for 1,728,000 years.

ANSWER: yugas [or the Kali Yuga; or the Satya Yuga]

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Summary


2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo	10/28/2023	Y	4	22.50	75%	75%	75%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU	10/28/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)	10/21/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)	10/21/2023	Y	7	20.00	86%	57%	57%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)	10/28/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)	10/28/2023	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)	10/28/2023	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC	10/28/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Cornell B	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
jhu	COlumbia B	10	10	10	30
UMD A	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
NYU	John Jay A	10	10	10	30
Pitt	JHU B	10	0	0	10
RIT	UMD B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20