Which one of the following is not part of Kuru-Panchala region and its neighbouring areas?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Hampi
The map of the Kuru Panchala region and neighbouring areas shows Indraprastha in the Kuru lands, Virata in Matsya and Bodh Gaya further east. Hampi lies far to the south, in the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab, where the ruins of the city of Vijayanagara stand.
NCERT (2025-26): “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.…”
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