RAS question
Budha Pushkar lake is near which main lake?
Correct answer: (B) Pushkar Lake.
Budha Pushkar, also called Old Pushkar, is near Pushkar Lake in Ajmer.
Explanation
The answer is Pushkar Lake because Budha Pushkar, or Old Pushkar, is an adjacent lake to Pushkar Lake in Ajmer, connected by a channel. The Devasthan Department's Pushkar master-plan report supports this setting by treating Pushkar, Budha Pushkar and Madhya Pushkar as the three sarovars at the centre of the sacred Pushkar landscape, and by separately identifying Jyestha, Budha or Vriddha Pushkar as one of these three lakes. That places Budha Pushkar within the Pushkar lake cluster, not among the better-known Ajmer city lakes or Mount Abu's Nakki Lake. A Lord Shiva temple at Budha Pushkar is why the location is remembered in Rajasthan geography through both lake geography and pilgrimage geography.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Ana Sagar is an Ajmer city lake, while Budha Pushkar belongs to the Pushkar lake cluster near Pushkar Lake.
- (C) Foy Sagar is also in Ajmer, but the question asks about Budha Pushkar's nearby main lake, which is Pushkar Lake.
- (D) Nakki Lake is in Mount Abu, so it is geographically unrelated to Budha Pushkar in the Pushkar area of Ajmer.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan lake-location mapping, especially the distinction between Ajmer city lakes and the Pushkar lake cluster. It recurs in RAS because sacred lakes, pilgrimage geography and district-level physical geography often overlap in Rajasthan questions.