The name ‘Hampi’ is derived from the local mother goddess:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Pampadevi
People of the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab remembered the ruined city as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi.
NCERT (2026-27): “…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.…” |