The Baroli temples near Rawatbhata are built in which architectural style?

Explanation

The Baroli or Badoli temple group near Rawatbhata is identified in the ASI Jaipur Circle inventory under Ghateshwar Temple, Badoli, in Chittaurgarh district. Badoli is a group of eight temples around a natural fountain, with another ninth temple about a kilometre away, and these temples belong to the developed Pratihara style of the tenth century AD. Three temples, including Ghateshwar, preserve stately single-spired nagara-sikharas. Nagara is the correct architectural style here: the group is North Indian in form, Pratihara in idiom, and marked by the shikhara type associated with Nagara temple architecture.

Why the other options are wrong

• (B) Vesara is a hybrid Deccan style, while the Baroli group is Pratihara and marked by nagara-sikharas.
• (C) Panchayatan is a shrine layout pattern, not the architectural style of the Baroli temples.
• (D) Dravida is the South Indian temple style, whereas the Baroli temples follow the North Indian Nagara tradition.

Concept

Rajasthan's early medieval temple architecture includes the Pratihara-linked Nagara tradition. Sites like Baroli connect art-history terminology with specific protected monuments in Rajasthan.

Source

• Archaeological Survey of India, Inventory of Monuments and Sites of National Importance, Vol. II, Part 1: Jaipur Circle

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