Which of the following statements are correct about Krishnadevaraya ?
a. Ruler of Vijayanagar Empire Krishnadevaraya wrote 'Amuktamalyada' epic poem.
b. Took title as 'Andhra Bhoja', 'Abhinava Bhoja'.

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Which of the following statements are correct about Krishnadevaraya ?
a. Ruler of Vijayanagar Empire Krishnadevaraya wrote 'Amuktamalyada' epic poem.
b. Took title as 'Andhra Bhoja', 'Abhinava Bhoja'.
c. Peddana was a prominent Telugu poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya.
d. Krishnadevaraya was from Sangama dynasty.

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Correct — option (3), statements a, b and c. Krishnadevaraya, who ruled the Vijayanagara Empire from 1509 to 1529 at the height of its power, was himself a Telugu poet as well as a patron of poets: he composed the Amuktamalyada, which tells of the marriage of the god Ranganayaka (a form of Vishnu) to Andal, one of the Vaishnava Alvar saints, and which also doubles as a manual of statecraft, so statement a stands. He carried the titles 'Andhra Bhoja' and 'Abhinava Bhoja' — 'the Bhoja of the Andhra country' and 'a new Bhoja' — deliberately invoking the legendary ninth-tenth century Paramara king Bhoja of Dhara, remembered as the archetypal scholar-king, so statement b stands. His court held the Ashtadiggajas, the eight celebrated Telugu poets, and its foremost figure was Allasani Peddana, honoured with the title Andhra Kavita Pitamaha ('grandfather of Telugu poetry') for his Manucharitramu, so statement c stands. Only statement d fails: Krishnadevaraya belonged to the Tuluva dynasty, the third dynasty to rule Vijayanagara, not the Sangama dynasty, which was the empire's first ruling house, founded by Harihara I and Bukka I roughly a century and a half earlier. Three statements true, one false, gives option (3).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Accepts the two statements about Krishnadevaraya's own authorship of the Amuktamalyada and his titles, but wrongly drops statement c — that Peddana was a prominent poet in his court. Peddana's presence at Krishnadevaraya's court, and his standing as foremost among the Ashtadiggajas, is among the best-attested facts of the whole Vijayanagara literary period, so excluding it understates a true and well-documented statement rather than correctly identifying a false one.  (b) Correctly keeps the title and the Peddana statements, but wrongly drops statement a, that Krishnadevaraya himself wrote the Amuktamalyada. This is one of the most secure facts about him — a ruling emperor who was also a practising Telugu poet is precisely why he is remembered as a patron-scholar in the mould of the historical Bhoja he took his titles from — and dropping it removes a true statement rather than the false one.  (d) Keeps the two true statements about his titles and Peddana, but swaps in the false statement d — that he belonged to the Sangama dynasty — while dropping the true statement a about his authorship of the Amuktamalyada. Krishnadevaraya was the most celebrated ruler of the Tuluva dynasty, Vijayanagara's third ruling house; the Sangama dynasty was the empire's founding line under Harihara I and Bukka I, roughly a century and a half before Krishnadevaraya's reign, and confusing the two collapses the empire's whole dynastic sequence into one name.

Concept: Krishnadevaraya's reign (1509–1529) is the conventional high point of the Vijayanagara Empire, and the syllabus treats him as much a cultural figure as a political and military one: a ruler who fought and administered while also composing Telugu verse, patronising a court of celebrated poets, and consciously modelling himself on Raja Bhoja of Dhara, the archetypal scholar-king of an earlier north Indian dynasty. The Vijayanagara Empire itself passed through four ruling dynasties — Sangama, Saluva, Tuluva and Aravidu — and Krishnadevaraya's own dynasty, Tuluva, is the third of these, distinct from the Sangama dynasty that founded the empire in the mid-fourteenth century.

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