History · From State to Empire
UGC NET December 2013 History
Point out which one of the following sites associated with the Nagas had a shrine dedicated to Dadhikarna, the lord of the Nagas.
APadmavati
BKantipuri
CMathura ✓ Correct
DRajagriha
Correct answer: (C) Mathura — Mathura had a shrine dedicated to Dadhikarna, so the answer is Mathura.
Explanation
★Mathura had a shrine dedicated to Dadhikarna, so the answer is Mathura.
★Dadhikarna was honoured there as the lord of the Nagas.
★Mathura was an old centre of folk and Naga worship.
★Excavations show it belonged to the Painted Grey Ware culture in its earliest phase.
★By about the sixth century BCE it became the capital of the Surasena kingdom.
★It later grew into a great centre of art and religion.
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