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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Group of Monuments at Hampi' has mentioned 'Vijayanagara' in the following places:
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Above: one of the many Vijayanagara market ruins, with Tungabhadra River in the background | WIKI |
The Vijayanagara Empire built its capital around Hampi, calling it Vijayanagara. | WIKI |
During this time the two brothers Harihara I and Bukka I, with a small army came to the present site of Vijayanagara, Hampi. | WIKI |
[5][34] The Vijayanagara rulers fostered developments in intellectual pursuits and the arts, maintained a strong military and fought many wars with sultanates to its north and east. | WIKI |
[8] They captured and beheaded the king Aliya Rama Raya,[35][36] followed by a massive destruction of the infrastructure fabric of Hampi and the metropolitan Vijayanagara. | WIKI |
The site is significant historically and archaeologically, for the Vijayanagara period and before. | WIKI |
Hampi is located in hilly terrain formed by granite boulders [45] The Hampi monuments comprising the UNESCO world heritage site are a subset of the wider-spread Vijayanagara ruins. | WIKI |
Almost all of the monuments were built between 1336 and 1570 CE during the Vijayanagara rule. | WIKI |
The Hampi site has been studied in three broad zones; the first has been named the "sacred centre" by scholars such as Burton Stein and othersl;[19] the second is referred to as the "urban core" or the "royal centre"; and the third constitutes the rest of metropolitan Vijayanagara. | WIKI |
[54] Parts of the Shiva, Pampa and Durga temples existed in the 11th-century; it was extended during the Vijayanagara era. | WIKI |
[59][62][63] The mandapa pillars have outsized yalis, mythical animal melding the features of a horse, lion and other animals with an armed warrior riding itxe2x80x94a characteristic Vijayanagara feature. | WIKI |
[73] In Vijayanagara times, the temple was traditionally approached from the river, first past a ceremonial tank then along the market street with a broad road. | WIKI |
[73][74] On each side of each pillar in the 100-column hall are reliefs of avatars of Vishnu; other deities such as Shiva, Surya, Durga; scenes of daily lifexe2x80x94rishi, amorous couples, jokers; people in yoga asanas; people in namaste poses; and Vijayanagara emblems. | WIKI |
The temple gateway shows the Vijayanagara dynastic emblems; a boar from Varaha, a sword, the sun and the moon. | WIKI |
It is the most artistically sophisticated Hindu temple in Hampi, and is part of the sacred centre of Vijayanagara. | WIKI |
The depiction mirrors the description of festivals and processions in surviving memoirs of Persians and Portuguese who visited the Vijayanagara capital. | WIKI |
[101][102] It is mentioned in the memoirs of foreigners who visited Vijayanagara, some calling it the "House of Victory". | WIKI |
The Vijayanagara empire built an extensive water infrastructure,[108][110] some examples of whichxe2x80x94including the Manmatha tank near Virupaksha temple, which is dated to about the 9th centuryxe2x80x94predates the Vijayanagara. | WIKI |
These buildings reflect the assimilative approach of the Vijayanagara Hindu rulers. | WIKI |
The Vijayanagara rulers built forts, fortified gateways and watchtowers after their dynasty was founded from the ruins of war and for security from repeated raids and invasion. | WIKI |
Some Muslim monuments are a part of the urban core while others are in the suburbs where most Vijayanagara residents lived. | WIKI |
In 1520, Domingo Paes, a Portuguese traveller, visited Vijayanagara as a part of trade contingent from Portuguese Goa. | WIKI |
He wrote his memoir as Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga, in which he stated Vijayanagara was "as large as Rome, and very beautiful to the sightxc2xa0... the best provided city in the world". | WIKI |
The historian Will Durant, in his Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization recites the story of Vijayanagara and calls its conquest and destruction a discouraging tale. | WIKI |
The Vitthla temple is the most exquisitely ornate structure on the site and represents the culmination of Vijayanagara temple architecture. | UNESCO |
Dravidian architecture survives in the rest of Southern India spread through the patronage of the Vijayanagara rulers. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iii): The city bears exceptional testimony to the vanished civilization of the kingdom of Vijayanagara, which reached its apogee under the reign of Krishna Deva Raya (1509-1530). | UNESCO |
Criterion (iv): This capital offers an outstanding example of a type of structure which illustrates a significant historical situation: that of the destruction of the Vijayanagara kingdom at the Battle of Talikota (1565 CE) which left behind an ensemble of living temples, magnificent archaeological remains in the form of elaborate sacred, royal, civil and military structures as well as traces of its rich lifestyle, all integrated within its natural setting. | UNESCO |