India Mock Test Series 2 – UNESCO Heritage sites -Mahabalipuram

January 18, 2021January 27, 2021 Sueeela Perumal

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316. What are the special features of the Draupadi Ratha in southern Mahabalipuram?

The Draupadi Ratha is an stone structure north of Arjuna Ratha, and they share a platform. It resembles a wooden hut and has a curved roof.

There is a carved structure with alternating lions and elephants, and the shrine deity is missing Its design is a simplified Nagara-style Hindu temple. The ratha has reliefs of Durga; three images are on the outer walls, and one is on an interior wall.

The east-facing Durga is her Mahishasuramardini form, with the head of buffalo. Depicted elsewhere with her are devotees, makaras (mythical sea creatures) and ganas (mythical, comic dwarfs) .

All of These

317. What are the special features of the Nakula Sahadeva Ratha and its standing elephant in southern Mahabalipuram?

The unfinished Nakula Sahadeva Ratha is an apsidal temple, a relatively-uncommon Hindu design found in Aihole and elsewhere in India.

It is the two-storey Temple based on Vesara-style .

Northeast of this ratha are a standing elephant and Arjuna Ratha.

All of These

318. What are the special features of the Ganesh Ratha in Mahabalipuram?

The Ganesha Ratha, probably a model for gopuras found in later Tamil temples.The late-7th-century Ganesha Ratha is attributed to Parameshvara-varman I (grandson of Mahamalla) It is adjacent to (and north of) the Descent of the Ganges bas-relief and south of Krishna's butter-ball monument.

The two-storey, relatively-undamaged Ganesha Ratha, similar to Bhima Ratha, is 19 feet (5.8 m) long, 11.25 feet (3.43 m) wide and 28 feet (8.5 m) high. The first storey has five small vimanas; the second storey has four, with repeating patterns. The sala has nine kalasas, and one end has a trishula at its top .

The temple facade has two pillars and two pilasters. The column bases are shaped like seated lions and the middle is chamfered, topped with a fluted capital. At the sides of the entrance mandapa are two standing dvarapalas with welcoming, bent heads. The temple wall has an inscription suggesting a 7th-century origin. A Ganesha statue is in the garbhagriha, but Ramaswami wrote that it may have been a later addition.

All of These

319. Which one of the following is Radhas in the west of the Mahabalipuram town?

Pidari rathas - two(unfinished, two-storey monuments)

Valayankuttai ratha – one(unfinished, two-storey monument)

Both of These

320. The two Pidari rathas and a Valayankuttai ratha follows the traditional style of which architecture?

One Pidari and one Valayankuttai ratha feature North Indian Nagara-style architecture.

The other Pidari ratha features South Indian Dravida-style architecture.

Both of These