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Slice the temple wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Nagara or dravidaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the temple regionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Temple architecture bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Bronze is an alloy made by mixing copper, zinc and:Read the answer and worked solution →The cire-perdu casting process is also called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro, perhaps the earliest Indian bronze, dates to about:Read the answer and worked solution →Bronze statuettes including a chariot were found at Daimabad, datable to:Read the answer and worked solution →Kushana period bronze images of Jain tirthankaras were discovered at Chausa in:Read the answer and worked solution →A famous hoard of Jain bronzes was found at Akota on the outskirts of:Read the answer and worked solution →Ambika is the Shasanadevi of:Read the answer and worked solution →Gupta period standing Buddha bronzes show the right hand in:Read the answer and worked solution →The monumental Gupta bronze Buddha with foldless drapery comes from Sultanganj in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the lost-wax process, the wax model is covered with a paste of equal parts clay, sand and:Read the answer and worked solution →In the lost-wax process, the weight of metal used is how many times that of the wax?Read the answer and worked solution →Four-headed Vishnu worshipped in Kashmir and Himachal is called:Read the answer and worked solution →A school of bronze casting emerged around the ninth century at Nalanda under which dynasty?Read the answer and worked solution →Sculptors near Nalanda who revived the classical Gupta style worked at:Read the answer and worked solution →The finest Chola bronzes were produced in Tamil Nadu from the tenth to the:Read the answer and worked solution →The art of fashioning bronze images is still practised in South India particularly at:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Nataraja bronze, the demon of ignorance crushed under Shiva's right foot is:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Nataraja bronze, the upper right hand holds the:Read the answer and worked solution →The circular garland of flames surrounding the dancing Nataraja is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The distinguished patron of Chola bronzes in the tenth century was the widowed queen:Read the answer and worked solution →The ninth century kalyanasundara murti of Thanjavur represents:Read the answer and worked solution →Life-size bronze portrait statues of Krishnadevaraya with his two queens stand at:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Nataraja elementsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Jain bronze sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the bronze agesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the temple words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Sonnet
Matches the category
  1. Shikhara
  2. Gopuram
  3. Vimana
  4. Deul
  5. Mandapa
Instructions
Slice only the temple architecture words. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 6, Temple Architecture and Sculpture._

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Nagara or dravida

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Upper category
Nagara
Lower category
Dravida
Items
  1. Category
    Nagara
    Item
    Shikhara
  2. Category
    Nagara
    Item
    Amalak
  3. Category
    Nagara
    Item
    Kalash
  4. Category
    Nagara
    Item
    Khajuraho
  5. Category
    Dravida
    Item
    Vimana
  6. Category
    Dravida
    Item
    Gopuram
  7. Category
    Dravida
    Item
    Thanjavur
  8. Category
    Dravida
    Item
    Stupika
Instructions
Send each clue to the nagara track or the dravida track.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 6, Temple Architecture and Sculpture._

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Sort the temple regions

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Items
  1. Group
    Odisha
    Item
    Deul
  2. Group
    Odisha
    Item
    Jagamohana
  3. Group
    Odisha
    Item
    Konark
  4. Group
    Khajuraho
    Item
    Kandariya
  5. Group
    Khajuraho
    Item
    Lakshmana
  6. Group
    Khajuraho
    Item
    Chandela
  7. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Brihadeswara
  8. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Srirangam
  9. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Mamallapuram
Groups
  1. Item
    Odisha
  2. Item
    Khajuraho
  3. Item
    Tamil Nadu
Instructions
Drop each clue onto Odisha, Khajuraho or Tamil Nadu.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 6, Temple Architecture and Sculpture._

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