India Mock Test Series 5 UNESCO Heritage sites-Group of Monuments at Hampi – Khajuraho Group of Monuments – Churches and Convents of Goa – Fatehpur Sikri (1986)

January 27, 2021March 15, 2021 Sueeela Perumal

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511. Which of the following brought the significance of city of Hampi to the world?

A translation by using Arabic terms such as "zenana" for the first time and other terms to describe some of the Hampi monuments A translation written by Abdul Razzaq, a Persian envoy in the court of Devaraya II (1424–1446), published described some monuments of the abandoned site in the early 1880s .

This very first translation by Alexander Rea, an officer of the Archaeological Survey department of the Madras Presidency within British India, published his survey of the site in 1885. Robert Sewell published his scholarly treatise A Forgotten Empire in 1900, bringing Hampi to the widespread attention of scholars.Rea and his successor Longhurst led to clean and repair the Hampi group of monuments.

The site is significant historically and archaeologically, for the Vijayanagara period and before.This site contain more than 1,600 surviving remains of the last great Hindu kingdom in South India that includes forts, riverside features, royal and sacred complexes, temples, shrines, pillared halls, mandapas, memorial structures, water structures and others. The Archaeological Survey of India continues to conduct excavations in the area

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512. Which of the the following is the feature of the tremendous site of Hampi historical city of Hampi or Hampe?

Hampi or Hampe, also referred to as the Group of Monuments at Hampi, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .It is one of the historical architectural city of major attraction of south india.It is located in east-central Karnataka, India near Hosapete,Bellary District.

Chronicles left by Persian and European travellers, particularly the Portuguese, say that Hampi was a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with river Tungabhadra, craggy hill ranges and open plains and widespread ruined remains.

By 1500 CE Hampi-Vijayanagara was the world's second-largest medieval-era city after Beijing, and probably India's richest. Its wealth attracted 16th-century traders from across the Deccan area, Persia and the Portuguese colony of Goa.

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513. Which of the the following is the feature of ruins found by archiological scholars in the site of Hampi historical city of Hampi or Hampe?

The site have traces of the varied urban, royal and sacred systems is evident from the more than 1600 surviving remains that include forts, royal and sacred complexes, temples, shrines, pillared halls, Mandapas, memorial structures, gateways, defence check posts, Elephant stables, water structures, etc.

The site have Suburban townships surrounded the large Dravidian temple complexes containing subsidiary shrines, bazaars, residential areas and tanks applying the unique hydraulic technologies and skilfully and harmoniously integrating the town and defence architecture with surrounding landscape.

The site was multi-religious and multi-ethnic; it included Hindu and Jain monuments next to each other.Among these, the Krishna temple complex, Narasimha, Ganesa, Hemakuta group of temples, Achyutaraya temple complex, Vitthala temple complex, Pattabhirama temple complex, Lotus Mahal complex, can be highlighted.

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514. When and how was the city of Hampi abandoned as ruins, which are now called the Group of Monuments at Hampi?

During 1500 CE Hampi of Vijayanagara Empire was the world's second-largest medieval-era city and India's richest city.Its wealth attracted 16th-century traders from across the Deccan area, Persia and the Portuguese colony of Goa.

While The Vijayanagara Empire was prosperous and worldliness infrastructure, the Muslim-Hindu wars between Muslim Sultanates and Vijayanagara Empire continued till 16 CE..The invasions of nearby Muslim Sultanates and kings belong to south Indian dynasty towards vijayanagara were continued till its power to decline.

In 1565, at the Battle of Talikota, a coalition of Delhi sultanates entered into a war with the Vijayanagara Empire, captured and beheaded the king Aliya Rama Raya and conquered the capital city of Vijayanagara The sultanates then looted and destroyed the infrastructure and wealth of Hampi and the Vijayanagara for 6 months, after which it remained in ruins.

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515. Which of the following poets were regarded as Ashtadiggajas by King Krishna Dev Raya?

Allasani Peddana and Tenali Ramakrishna

Nandi Thimmana, Madayyagari Mallana and Dhurjati

Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu, Pingali Surana and Battumurthy alias Ramarajabhushanudu.

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