The Bhojeshwar Shiva temple at Bhojpur is attributed to which ruler?
- A.Raja Bhoj of the Paramaras
- B.Vidyadhara of the Chandelas
- C.Man Singh Tomar
- D.Bir Singh Deo of the Bundelas
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Raja Bhoj of the Paramaras. The temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district, with its single enormous linga cut from one stone, is attributed to the eleventh-century Paramara ruler Bhoj of Dhar, the same king remembered for his learning and for the lake he is said to have built at Bhopal. The temple was left unfinished, and the ramps and quarry marks around it show how such buildings were raised.
Option B is wrong because Vidyadhara was the Chandela ruler in whose reign the Kandariya Mahadeva at Khajuraho was built. Option C is wrong because Man Singh Tomar built the Man Mandir in Gwalior fort. Option D is wrong because Bir Singh Deo, a Bundela ruler of Orchha, built Jahangir Mahal and the Datia palace.
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Practice Questions
View allThe temples of Khajuraho were built by which dynasty?
- A.Chandela
- B.Paramara
- C.Bundela
- D.Tomar
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The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, and the names of their rulers are tied to individual temples: Yashovarman to the Lakshmana temple and Vidyadhara to the Kandariya Mahadeva.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest and most developed temple of the Khajuraho group?
- A.Lakshmana temple
- B.Kandariya Mahadeva temple
- C.Chaunsath Yogini temple
- D.Parsvanatha temple
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally built by which ruler?
- A.Ashoka
- B.Kanishka
- C.Harshavardhana
- D.Pulakeshin II
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The core of Stupa 1 at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in the third century BCE in Ashoka's reign, with the Ashokan pillar carrying the schism edict beside it.
Read the full explanation →The rock shelters of Bhimbetka were discovered in 1957 by whom?
- A.V. S. Wakankar
- B.H. D. Sankalia
- C.Daya Ram Sahni
- D.Robert Bruce Foote
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The archaeologist Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar noticed the shelters in the Vindhyan foothills of Raisen district in 1957 and began the study of their paintings, made in red and white ochre and showing hunters, dancers, animals and later riders with weapons.
Read the full explanation →The Khajuraho temples belong to which style of temple architecture?
- A.Dravida
- B.Nagara
- C.Vesara
- D.Hoysala
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The Khajuraho temples are classic north Indian Nagara temples: they stand on a high platform without a boundary wall or gateway, they have a curving shikhara over the sanctum with smaller shikharas clustered around it, and their halls run in a line from the entrance to the garbhagriha.
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