'Pampadevi' was the name of the local mother goddess of __________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Hampi
People remembered the city of Vijayanagara as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi.
NCERT (2026-27): “…In 1565 the city was sacked and subsequently deserted. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it lived on in the memories of people living in the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab. They remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi. These oral traditions combined with archaeological finds, monuments and inscriptions and other records helped scholars to rediscover the Vijayanagara Empire.…” |