In which of the following tourist places is the statue of Varaha found?

2022

In which of the following tourist places is the statue of Varaha found?

  1. A.

    Bhojpur

  2. B.

    Nevdi

  3. C.

    Asapuri

  4. D.

    Rajwada

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Correct answer: C

Madhya Pradesh's heritage tourist sites are usually identified by ONE signature monument or icon unique to that place — a particular deity's sculpture, a temple, or an architectural feature — so a question naming several similarly-described "tourist places" is really testing which specific icon belongs to which site.

Among the four places listed, Asapuri (Ashapuri) is the early-medieval (9th–11th century CE) Pratihara–Paramara temple complex near Bhopal. Its excavated site and adjoining museum, conserved by the Madhya Pradesh Directorate of Archaeology, preserve a celebrated stone image of Varaha — the boar incarnation of Vishnu — among the hundreds of sculptures recovered there. That makes Asapuri the tourist place where the statue of Varaha is found.

  • Bhojpur — famed for the unfinished Bhojeshwar temple and one of India's largest monolithic Shiva lingams, not for a Varaha image.

  • Rajwada — the historic Holkar-dynasty palace at Indore, a Maratha-era civic building, not a temple site.

  • Nevdi — a minor Madhya Pradesh locality with no major archaeological or pilgrimage association.

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