Question

Find out the wrongly matched pair:
1. Shiva Temple - Bhumara
2. Parvati Temple - Nachha
3. Vishnu Temple - Tigawa
4. Cave Temple with Shiva sculptures - Udayagiri Hills

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Cave Temple with Shiva sculptures - Udayagiri Hills

The correct answer is Cave Temple with Shiva sculptures - Udayagiri Hills.

• The Udayagiri Caves are twenty rock-cut caves near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh from the early years of the 5th century CE.
  • It contains the oldest surviving Hindu temples and iconography in India.
  • Udayagiri caves contain iconography of Vaishnavism (Vishnu), Shaktism (Durga and Matrikas), and Shaivism (Shiva).
  • Shiva sculptures are not seen in Udayagiri hills.

• ​Bhumara Temple sometimes called Bhumra, Bhubhara, or Bharkuleswar is a 5th or 6th-century Gupta era Hindu stone temple site dedicated to Shiva near Satna, in Madhya Pradesh.
• Nachna Hindu temples, also referred to as Nachhna temples or Hindu temples at Nachna-Kuthara, are some of the earliest surviving stone temples in central India along with those at Bhumara and Deogarh.
  • The best preserved and most studied monument is the Parvati temple at Nachna.
• Tigawa is a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and an archaeological site with a complex of about 36 Hindu temple ruins.
  • The portico has an image of the Sheshashai Vishnu (Narayana) and another one of Chamunda (Kankali Devi).
  • Projecting from the front of the portico is a later relief of a seated Vishnu in the yoga asana position with a serpent hood above the head.