The Vimal Vasahi temple at Dilwara, dedicated to Adinath and built in 1031, was commissioned by:
- A.Vimal Shah
- B.Dharna Shah
- C.Vastupala and Tejpala
- D.Guman Chand Patwa
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The correct answer is A, Vimal Shah. The Vimal Vasahi, the oldest and largest of the Dilwara temples, was built in 1031 by Vimal Shah, a minister of the Solanki ruler of Gujarat, and is dedicated to Adinath, the first Jain Tirthankara. Option C, Vastupala and Tejpala, were the ministers of the Vaghela court who built the second great temple at Dilwara, the Luna Vasahi of 1230, dedicated to Neminath, so the two pairs of name and date belong to different temples on the same hill. Option B, Dharna Shah, was the merchant who built the Chaumukha temple at Ranakpur in the fifteenth century in the reign of Maharana Kumbha. Option D, Guman Chand Patwa, was the Jain banker of Jaisalmer who began the Patwon ki Haveli in 1805, a mansion and not a temple at all.
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View allThe Dilwara group of Jain temples stands at Mount Abu, in which district of Rajasthan?
- A.Pali
- B.Sirohi
- C.Rajsamand
- D.Udaipur
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Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan and the highest point of the Aravalli range, lies in Sirohi district, and the five marble temples of Dilwara stand on its slope.
Read the full explanation →The Chaumukha Jain temple at Ranakpur, famous for its 1,444 carved pillars, was built in the reign of which ruler of Mewar?
- A.Rana Sanga
- B.Maharana Kumbha
- C.Maharana Pratap
- D.Maharana Raj Singh I
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The temple of Adinath at Ranakpur in Pali district was built in the fifteenth century by the merchant Dharna Shah with the permission and patronage of Maharana Kumbha, who also gave the land and the name Ranakpur; the temple is called Chaumukha because the image faces four directions, and the…
Read the full explanation →The Chand Baori, the deep stepwell with about 3,500 steps at Abhaneri, is located in which district of Rajasthan?
- A.Dausa
- B.Bundi
- C.Tonk
- D.Alwar
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Chand Baori stands at Abhaneri village in Dausa district and is attributed to King Chanda of the Nikumbh line in about the ninth century; it descends thirteen storeys and has some three thousand five hundred narrow steps laid in a double criss cross pattern, with the Harshat Mata temple beside…
Read the full explanation →Raniji ki Baori, built in 1699 by Rani Nathavati, is situated in which city, known as the city of stepwells?
- A.Jodhpur
- B.Bundi
- C.Jaisalmer
- D.Jaipur
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Bundi, the Hara Chauhan capital in the Hadoti region, has so many stepwells that it is called the city of stepwells, and the finest of them is Raniji ki Baori, built in 1699 by Rani Nathavati with a high gateway and carved brackets.
Read the full explanation →Eklingji, the four-faced Shiva at Kailashpuri near Udaipur, is the tutelary deity of the rulers of:
- A.Marwar
- B.Mewar
- C.Amber
- D.Bikaner
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The temple of Eklingji at Kailashpuri, a short way north of Udaipur, holds a four-faced image of Shiva in black marble, and the Guhil and Sisodia rulers of Mewar treated him as the real sovereign of the state and themselves as his deputies, a claim repeated in their inscriptions.
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