Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Statement A- Viajynagara means city of victory.
Statement B- The Vijayanagara empire was founded in the thirteenth century.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

Only statement A is incorrect.

Only statement B is incorrect.

Both statements are incorrect.

None of the statements is correct.

Correct Answer:

Only statement B is incorrect.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - Only statement B is incorrect.

Statement B- The Vijayanagara empire was founded in the thirteenth century IS INCORRECT as the he empire was founded in the fourteenth century. 

 

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.

According to tradition and epigraphic evidence two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, founded the Vijayanagara Empire in 1336. This empire included within its fluctuating frontiers peoples who spoke different languages and followed different religious traditions.