QUIZ – 2020: INSIGHTS STATIC QUIZ, 8 April 2020 – Art and Culture

Solution: c)

In the central India, the Chandela rulers developed a distinct style of temple making of their own – known as Khajuraho school. The temples are famous for their nagara-style architectural symbolism and their erotic sculptures.

In these temples, both the interior and exterior walls were lavishly decorated with carvings.

The temples were made of sandstone.

Panchayatan style of temple making was followed. The temples were built on relatively high platform and belong to Hindu as well as Jain religion.

Solution: d)

Some of the BUDDHIST PILGRIMAGE SITES IN INDIA

• Mahabodhi temple, Bodh Gaya (Bihar)
• The Mahaviharas of Nalanda, Vikramshila, Sompura, Odantapuri, Pushpagiri and Jagaddala
• Sirpur in Chhattisgarh.
• Lalitagiri, Vajragiri and Ratnagiri in Odisha
• Sarnath, near Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh). Site of first sermon of Buddha.
• Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
• Sanchi and Bharhut in Madhya Pradesh
• Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu
• Bhaja & Karla caves, Pune (Maharashtra)
• Ajanta, Ellora and Pithalkora caves, Aurangabad (Maharashtra)

Solution: a)

The Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, one of the best examples of temples preserved from the medieval period in India, is the largest of the western group of temples in the Khajuraho complex which was built by the Chandela rulers. Shiva is the chief deity in the temple deified in the sanctum sanctorum.

Solution: d)

While construction of stupas continued, Brahmanical temples and images of gods also started getting constructed.

Often temples were decorated with the images of gods.

Each temple had a principal image of a god. The shrines of the temples were of three kinds—(i) sandhara type (without pradikshinapatha), (ii) nirandhara type (with pradakshinapatha), and (iii) sarvatobhadra (which can be accessed from all sides).

Solution: c)

This table gives a brief comparison between Nagara and Dravidian architecture.