Question

Which of the following are Gupta Temples?
1. The Kankali Tila at Tigowas
2. Parvati temple at Nanchna Kuthra
3. Dasavatra temple at Deogarh
A) 1 and 2
B) 1 and 3
C) 2 and 3
D) 1,2 and 3

Answer 1

Hint: Gupta Period is known as the "Brilliant time of India" or the "Old style Age of India" somewhat because of the remarkable exercises and advancement in artistic expression, design, model, painting and literature. During Gupta Era, stone cut engineering arrived at its pinnacle and this time denoted the start of the unattached sanctuary Architecture.

Complete answer:
1. The Kankali Devi Temple is generally prominent and is a Gupta period sanctuary. It is one of the most established enduring Hindu sanctuaries, outlining the developmental phases of Hindu sanctuary design and the fundamental components found in the north Indian style through the cutting-edge period. It has a sanctum and an open patio upheld on four columns. The sides of the patio were filled in with dividers containing boards at a later period.

Notwithstanding its name, the sanctuary was most likely committed to Vishnu, with different components added later. A picture of him as Narasimha is set inside the sanctum. The patio has a picture of Sheshashai Vishnu (Narayana) and another of Chamunda. Projecting from the front of the patio is a later alleviation of a situated Vishnu in the yoga asana position with a snake hood over the head.

2. The Parvati Temple is a two-story working with practically wonderful square arrangement thick-walled sanctum of 15 feet (4.6 m) side outwardly and is 8 feet (2.4 m) sided square inside. The sanctuary opens toward the west and stands on a Jagat (stage) that is 4.5 feet (1.4 m) over the ground. The traveller arrives at its sanctum utilizing a flight of stairs, and subsequent to going through a mandapa that is 12 feet (3.7 m) square. The sanctum is encircled by a roofed pradakshina patha (circumambulation pathway) that is 33 feet (10 m) outwardly and 26 feet (7.9 m) within.

3. The Dashavatara Temple is a mid-sixth century Vishnu Hindu Temple situated at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh which is 125 kilometres from Jhansi, in the Betwa River valley in northern-focal India. It has a straightforward, one cell square arrangement and is one of the most ancient Hindu stone temples actually enduring today.

Underlying the Gupta Period, the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh shows the lavish Gupta style engineering. The sanctuary at Deogarh is devoted to Vishnu yet remembers for its little impression pictures of different divine beings and goddesses, for example, Shiva, Parvati, Kartikeya, Brahma, Indra, River goddesses Ganga and Yamuna, just as a board showing the five Pandavas of the Hindu epic Mahabharata

Thus, the correct answer is option (D).

Note: The Shikhara was not much noticeable in the early Gupta sanctuaries but rather was conspicuous in later Gupta times. There was a solitary passage or mandapa or Porch. Gupta style sanctuary was displayed on the building standards of the Mathura school.