In 1565, the city was sacked and subsequently deserted. It fell into ruins in the 17th - 18th centuries only to be rediscovered in the early 19th century by a British cartographer. It lived in the memories of local people, who were also worshippers of the local mother goddess Pampadevi.
Identify the city among the following:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Hampi
The city of Vijayanagara, sacked in 1565 and brought to light in 1800 by the cartographer Colin Mackenzie, was remembered by the local people as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi.
NCERT (2026-27): “Vijayanagara or ‘city of victory’ was the name of both a city and an empire. The empire was founded in the fourteenth century. In its heyday it stretched from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the peninsula. 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.… 1. The Discovery of Hampi … The ruins at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by an engineer and antiquarian named Colonel Colin Mackenzie.…” |