Madhya Pradesh Quiz: Jyotirlingas, Temples and Religious Places of MP

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.

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.

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 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.

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…

Bhoja, who ruled from Dhar in the eleventh century and is remembered as a scholar king, began the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district on the Betwa.

The core of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in brick by Ashoka in the third century BCE, and the stone casing and the railing were added later.

The Sharda Devi temple stands on the Trikuta hill at Maihar in Satna district, and pilgrims climb more than a thousand steps to reach it.

Amarkantak, in Anuppur district, stands where the Maikal range joins the Vindhyas and the Satpuras, and both the Narmada and the Son rise there.

At Orchha, the Bundela capital on the Betwa in Niwari district, the Ram Raja temple is a palace that became a shrine, and Rama is honoured there as a ruling king rather than only as a deity, with a daily guard of honour.