BENGALURU: A

has won the first prize in the Bhagavad Gita quiz held by Iskcon at Sanjaynagar, trouncing 400 participants from 14 schools.

Fourteen-year-old

, a Class 9 student from Subhash Memorial English School, answered all 41 multiple choice

questions

related to the Gita correctly. He is the youngest son of Shaik Salahuddin and Sabihya Mohammad, residents of Balaji Layout in Hebbal. Salahuddin owns a packaging industry unit.

According to Sabihya, Mohiuddin was 11 years old when he started asking questions about the Gita and religions while going through a general knowledge book. “I bought him a copy of the Gita and he started to read it with the help of his grandmother. Within six months, he managed to read and understand the entire scripture,” she said.

Thanking his grandmother, Afsiya Khanum, the boy said: “She helped me understand the Gita. I had read the Quran long ago and after reading the Gita, I felt the larger message in both is the same — upholding of human values. I have begun to read the Bible as well.” Besides being an excellent student, he’s a volleyball player too.