The temples of Khajuraho were built by which dynasty?
- A.Chandela
- B.Paramara
- C.Bundela
- D.Tomar
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Chandela. 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. The group was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986.
Option B is wrong because the Paramaras of Malwa are remembered for Raja Bhoj and the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district. Option C is wrong because the Bundelas built Orchha with its Jahangir Mahal and Raja Mahal, several centuries later. Option D is wrong because the Tomars held Gwalior, where Man Singh Tomar built the Man Mandir inside the fort. In matching questions the dynasty and the district decide the answer, so keep Chandela with Chhatarpur and Khajuraho together.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich 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.
Read the full explanation →At Sanchi, the relics of the Buddha's disciples Sariputta and Mahamoggallana were found in which structure?
- A.Stupa 1, the Great Stupa
- B.Stupa 2
- C.Stupa 3
- D.The Ashokan pillar
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The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were recovered from Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single torana.
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