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?
- A.
Bhojpur
- B.
Nevdi
- C.
Asapuri
- 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.