In 1565, the city was sacked and subsequently deserted. It fell into ruins in the 17^th - 18^th centuries only to be rediscovered in the early 19^th 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:

Hampi

The correct answer is Option (3) → Hampi

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.