Question

The Kedarnath temple was built by:
1. Adi Shankaracharya
2. Sri Ramanuja
3. Namdeva
4. Vallabhacharya

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Adi Shankaracharya

The Correct Answer is "Adi Shankaracharya".

• Kedarnath temple, which is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
• It was built by Adi Shankaracharya and is among one of the 12 jyotirlingas in India.
• The Kedarnath temple is an integral part of the famous Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand.
• Bhagavan Adi Shankaracharya is considered to be the ideal Sannyasi. 
• He was born in Kalady, Kerala.

Sri Ramanuja :

• Sri Ramanuja to build a temple of Lord Thirunarayanaswamy at Melukote which is presently a temple town in Mandya district of Karnataka.

Namdev :

• Namdev wrote a number of Abhangas (hymns).
• He was extremely popular in Maharashtra and in Punjab, and some of his verses are included in the Adi Granth (“First Book”), the sacred scriptures of Sikhism.
• Namdev inspired a tradition of devotional poetry that continued in Maharashtra for four centuries, culminating in the works of the great bhakti poet Tukaram.

Vallabhacharya :

• Vallabhacharya himself belonged to the Rudra sect established by Vishnusvamin, and his philosophical system of pure nondualism (Shuddhadvaita)—i.e., the identity of God and the universe—closely follows that of the Vishnusvamin tradition.