UPSC Prelims 2023 · GS Paper 1 · Q12

Art & Culture

Hard · Rock-cut cave architecture

Consider the following pairs of sites and the type of rock-cut architecture each is actually known for:

1. Bhaja : Early Buddhist rock-cut caves with a chaitya hall

2. Sittanavasal : A Jain rock-cut cave shrine famed for its fresco paintings

3. Besnagar : A rock-cut Shaivite cave shrine of the Gupta period

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?