Which of the following statement is NOT true about Vijayanagara?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → The city of Vijayanagara was sacked in 1656.
Vijayanagara was sacked in 1565 and subsequently deserted; the other three statements on the city and the empire are true.
Option (1) The city of Vijayanagara was sacked in 1656. — Incorrect statement. The city was sacked in 1565, not 1656.
Option (2) The people of Vijayanagara remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from the local mother goddess, Pampadevi. — Correct statement. The people of the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab remembered it as Hampi, from the local mother goddess Pampadevi.
Option (3) Vijayanagara was the name given to both a city and an empire. — Correct statement. Vijayanagara, or “city of victory”, was the name of both a city and an empire.
Option (4) Vijayanagara was founded in the fourteenth century. — Correct statement. The empire was founded in the fourteenth century.
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.…” |