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Factoids for Prelims 2021

  • Rani ki vav-the monument was built byQueen Udayamatias a memorial to her husband,King Bhimadeva I, who had built the great Sun-Shiva temple at Modhera.
  • almost identical Virupaksha and Mallikarjuna temples in Pattadakal, Karnataka.

They were erected by the sister queens of Vikramaditya II — Haihaya princesses

Lokamahadevi and Trailokyamahadevi— probably in the 740s, to mark his victoryo overthe Pallavas at Kanchipuram thrice.

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