{"id":142661,"date":"2023-06-14T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=142661"},"modified":"2023-06-14T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:33:23","slug":"which-of-the-following-places-can-be-regarded-as-the-largest-monastic-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-places-can-be-regarded-as-the-largest-monastic-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following places can be regarded as the largest monastic establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Which of the following places can be regarded as the largest monastic establishment in Western India (containing 130 caves)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Karle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Ajanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Junnair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Kanheri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (d) Kanheri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: The correct answer is (d) Kanheri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanheri is the largest monastic establishment in Western India, containing 130 caves. It is located in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park near Mumbai, Maharashtra. The Kanheri Caves are a significant Buddhist site and served as a prominent Buddhist center from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE. The caves were used by Buddhist monks for meditation, study, and living quarters. They contain impressive rock-cut architecture, including prayer halls, viharas (monastic cells), and chaitya halls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Which of the following places can be regarded as the largest monastic establishment in Western India (containing 130 caves)? (a) Karle (b) Ajanta (c) Junnair (d) Kanheri Ans: (d) Kanheri Explanation: The correct answer is (d) Kanheri. Kanheri is the largest monastic establishment in Western India, containing 130 caves. It is located in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":142664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-142661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142665,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661\/revisions\/142665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=142661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}