Match List I with List II:
| List I | List II | ||
| (A) | Lotus Mahal | (I) | Mother goddess |
| (B) | Pampadevi | (II) | Hall built by Krishnadeva Raya |
| (C) | Hazara Rama Temple | (III) | Council Chamber |
| (D) | Virupaksha Temple | (IV) | Used only by the king and his family |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
(A) Lotus Mahal — this matches (III) Council Chamber. Historians are not sure what the Lotus Mahal was used for; one suggestion, found in a map drawn by Mackenzie, is that it may have been a council chamber, where the king met his advisers.
(B) Pampadevi — this matches (I) Mother goddess. Pampadevi was the local mother goddess who, as tradition says, did penance in the hills by the Tungabhadra in order to marry Virupaksha.
(C) Hazara Rama Temple — this matches (IV) Used only by the king and his family. This temple in the royal centre was probably meant to be used only by the king and his family.
(D) Virupaksha Temple — this matches (II) Hall built by Krishnadeva Raya. The hall in front of the main shrine of the Virupaksha temple was built by Krishnadeva Raya to mark his accession.
NCERT (2026-27): “4.2 Other buildings in the royal centre … One of the most beautiful buildings in the royal centre is the Lotus Mahal, so named by British travellers in the nineteenth century.… 4.2 Other buildings in the royal centre … One suggestion, found in a map drawn by Mackenzie, is that it may have been a council chamber, a place where the king met his advisers.… 4.2 Other buildings in the royal centre … One of the most spectacular of these is one known as the Hazara Rama temple. This was probably meant to be used only by the king and his family.… 5.1 Choosing a capital … Other traditions suggest that Pampadevi, the local mother goddess, did penance in these hills in order to marry Virupaksha, the guardian deity of the kingdom, also recognised as a form of Shiva.… 5.2. Gopurams and mandapas … The Virupaksha temple was built over centuries. While inscriptions suggest that the earliest shrine dated to the ninth-tenth centuries, it was substantially enlarged with the establishment of the Vijayanagara Empire. The hall in front of the main shrine was built by Krishnadeva Raya to mark his accession. This was decorated with delicately carved pillars.…” |