Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 14

The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of Madhya Pradesh, which is one reason the state has a tropical climate with a marked dry season.

Built in the reign of Vidyadhara, it is the tallest and most fully worked out of the Khajuraho temples, with the complete sequence of ardhamandapa, mandapa, antarala and garbhagriha, a cluster of subsidiary shikharas rising towards the main one, and bands of sculpture over its walls.

The fort on the long sandstone hill at Gwalior holds the Teli ka Mandir of the Pratihara period, the Sas-Bahu temples, the Gujari Mahal built by Man Singh Tomar for Mrignayani and the Man Mandir palace of the same ruler, with its tiled decoration.

The reorganisation brought three units, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, together with the Hindi-speaking Mahakoshal districts of the old Madhya Pradesh.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra and is the only south-facing jyotirlinga, known for the Bhasma Aarti performed before dawn.

On that day the Holkar artillery and the Bhil levies turned on the British Residency at Indore.

Ujjain stands on the Shipra, and the Simhastha bathing takes place at its ghats, chiefly Ram Ghat, with the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at the centre of the fair.

The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were found in Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands a short distance north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single gateway.

Bhimbetka, in Raisen district, was inscribed in 2003 for its prehistoric paintings, which cover a span from the Upper Palaeolithic to the historical period in a single group of shelters.

Prithviraj the Third of Ajmer and Delhi attacked the Chandela country in 1182 and defeated Paramardideva, also called Parmal, near Mahoba.

The jyotirlinga at Ujjain is installed facing south, which is why it is called Dakshinamukhi, and it is the only one of the twelve with that orientation.

After the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761, Mahadji Scindia of Gwalior rebuilt Maratha strength in the north, occupied Delhi, took the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II under his protection and held the real authority at the imperial court.

Simha is the Sanskrit name of Leo, and the Ujjain fair takes its name from the entry of Jupiter into that sign, with the Sun in Aries; the combination falls in the month of Vaisakha, so the Ujjain Kumbh is a Vaisakha fair rather than a winter one.

The National Automotive Test Tracks were built at Pithampur in Dhar district as part of the country's automotive testing network, and the oval high-speed track there is the longest of its kind in Asia.

Omkareshwar is on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada, in Khandwa district, and the island is said to take the shape of the syllable Om, from which the name comes.

The Bhagoria is held in the Bhil and Bhilala areas of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar and Barwani in the weeks leading up to Holi.

Bhagoria is the haat festival of the Bhil and Bhilala people of the western districts, above all Jhabua and Alirajpur, with Dhar, Barwani and Khargone joining in, and it is held in the weekly markets of the week before Holi.

The Chandela rulers of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, in the Nagara style with clustered shikharas rising over the sanctum.

Bhagoria runs through the weekly haats of the week before Holi, in the month of Phalguna, and closes on the day of Holi itself, so the festival is counted as the Bhil form of the spring festival rather than a separate date in the calendar.

It is the largest and most developed of the Khajuraho temples, built in the western group under the Chandela ruler Vidyadhara in the early eleventh century, and it shows the Nagara plan at its fullest, with a cluster of smaller shikharas rising like foothills to the main spire over the…