HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Draupadi
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Bhima
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Dharmaraja
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Arjuna
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dharmaraja Ratha is the most prominent architecturally of the five rathas and also the tallest and largest. The ratha faces west and is sculpturally very rich. It has three floors including the ground floor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bhima Ratha is the largest structure here and has a vaulted barrel-like roof. It stands on a rectangular platform and is elongated with no sculptures on its walls.
Detailed explanation-3: -The five monolithic temples hewn from granite and known as the Pandava Rathas are ascribed to his reign. They are: the Draupadi Ratha, the Bhima Ratha, the Dharmaraja Ratha, the Nakula and Sahadeva Ratha, and the Arjuna Ratha, named after members of the Pandava family in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.