The idols of which three Gods are installed in Jagannath Temple, Puri?

Correct - D. Three wooden images stand in the sanctum at Puri: Jagannath, his elder brother Balabhadra and their sister Subhadra.

They are carved from neem wood and are periodically renewed in the Nabakalebara ritual. The Sudarshana disc is placed alongside them, which is why the group is often called the chaturdha murti - but the three deities installed are the ones named in option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh — Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are the Trimurti, the creator-preserver-destroyer triad of Hindu thought. They are not the images installed at Puri, where the triad is a family group of siblings.
• (b)
  Ram, Lakshman and Janaki — Ram, Lakshman and Janaki are the Ramayana figures installed in Ram temples such as those at Ayodhya. Puri's deities come from the Krishna-Balaram tradition, not the Ramayana.
• (c)
  Radha, Krishna and Balram — This is the closest wrong answer: Jagannath is identified with Krishna and Balabhadra with Balaram, but Radha has no image in the Puri sanctum. The third figure there is their sister Subhadra.

The Jagannath temple at Puri is one of the four Char Dham sites, along with Badrinath, Dwarka and Rameswaram.

It was built in the 12th century by Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva of the Eastern Ganga dynasty, the same dynasty that shaped Kalinga temple architecture in Odisha.

Its deities are unusual: not stone or metal but neem wood, carved in a stylised form and replaced in the Nabakalebara ceremony when the ritual calendar calls for it. During the Rath Yatra each of the three is drawn through Puri on a separate chariot.

Key facts

• The images installed at Puri are Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra, with the Sudarshana disc completing the group.
• The images are made of neem wood and are ritually renewed in the Nabakalebara ceremony.
• The temple was built by Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva of the Eastern Ganga dynasty in the 12th century.
• Puri is one of the four Char Dham pilgrimage sites, with Badrinath, Dwarka and Rameswaram.

Common traps

• Answering with the Trimurti because the stem says three Gods.
• Adding Radha to the Puri triad because Jagannath is treated as a form of Krishna.

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