The Teli ka Mandir and the Man Mandir are part of which fort?
- A.Gwalior Fort
- B.Asirgarh Fort
- C.Chanderi Fort
- D.Orchha Fort
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Gwalior Fort. 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. A Gwalior inscription of 876 CE also records a number written with a zero, one of the earliest such records in India.
Option B is wrong because Asirgarh near Burhanpur was a frontier fort called the key to the Deccan. Option C is wrong because Chanderi fort, in Ashok Nagar district, is known for the Khuni Darwaza and the Koshak Mahal. Option D is wrong because Orchha's fort complex holds the Bundela palaces of Jahangir Mahal and Raja Mahal.
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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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