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UPSC 2015: Who of the following founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary to river Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom all the land south of the river Krishna was supposed to belong?
(a)Amoghavarsha I
(b)Ballala II
(c)Harihara I
(d)Prataparudra II
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (c) Harihara I
Harihara I of the Sangama dynasty founded the city of Vijayanagara (on the south bank of the Tungabhadra, a Krishna tributary) around 1336 CE and proclaimed he was governing on behalf of the deity Virupaksha, to whom all lands south of the Krishna were deemed to belong. Amoghavarsha I (Rashtrakuta), Ballala II (Hoysala) and Prataparudra II (Kakatiya) neither founded this city nor adopted that divine-agent title.
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