At which place in Madhya Pradesh is Rama worshipped as a reigning king, in the Ram Raja temple?
- A.Chitrakoot
- B.Orchha
- C.Mandu
- D.Bhojpur
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Orchha. 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. The story is that the image, once installed in the palace, could not be moved to the Chaturbhuj temple built for it, and so the palace itself became the temple.
Option A is wrong because Chitrakoot on the Mandakini is associated with Rama's years in the forest and has Ramghat and Kamadgiri, but not this form of worship. Option C is wrong because Mandu in Dhar district is a fortified Afghan-era city known for the Jahaz Mahal and the tomb of Hoshang Shah. Option D is wrong because Bhojpur is a Shaiva site with the unfinished Bhojeshwar temple.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich two of the twelve jyotirlingas are located in Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Somnath and Nageshwar
- B.Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar
- C.Bhimashankar and Trimbakeshwar
- D.Kedarnath and Vishwanath
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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.
Read the full explanation →Which jyotirlinga is the only one that faces south, and is therefore called Dakshinamukhi?
- A.Omkareshwar
- B.Mahakaleshwar
- C.Somnath
- D.Grishneshwar
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Omkareshwar jyotirlinga stands on an island in which river?
- A.Shipra
- B.Betwa
- C.Narmada
- D.Chambal
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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.
Read the full explanation →The temples of Khajuraho were built by which dynasty?
- A.Paramara
- B.Chandela
- C.Bundela
- D.Kalachuri
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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.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest temple in the Khajuraho group?
- A.Lakshmana temple
- B.Chausath Yogini temple
- C.Kandariya Mahadeva temple
- D.Matangeshwara temple
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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…
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