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  • This residential locality, preferred by many prominent citizens (Congress leader Siddaramaiah, music composer Ravi Kiran), goes with the great empire's name Vijayanagar (it even has a Hampi Layout) but is hardly a symbol of the empire to remind people of the golden days of Hindu kingdom.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • At the Buddhist shrine of Gadaladeniya, I saw stone carvings based on the style of the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • At the Buddhist shrine of Gadaladeniya, I saw stone carvings based on the style of the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • At the Buddhist shrine of Gadaladeniya, I saw stone carvings based on the style of the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The site of Hampi is believed to be the last capital of the Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar.

    India's World Heritage Sites 2011

  • It plans to add another 3 million tons at its Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka state.

    JSW Steel Plans to Buy Ispat Stake Satish Sarangarajan 2010

  • This historic city, in southern India, was a prosperous center of trade and the seat of the Vijayanagar empire 1336-1646.

    Power Shifts: Megacities Then and Now 2010

  • Mr. Upward particularly liked Hampi, a village in the north that was the last capital of the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, and whose temples and palaces have been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site.

    All Aboard 2009

  • Words like Mughal dynasty, Sultanate of Dehli, the Gupta, Vijayanagar, the Maratha or the Raj have for me as much meaning and relevance as the Bourbon, Capet, Diego de Losada, Capitania General Tikal or Plantagenet.

    07/09/2006 - 07/16/2006 2006

  • The Madhwas philosphy has both brahminical and kshatriya aspects to it, but the SI Brahmins have generally laid stress on the brahminical aspect, Mokhsa, acquistion of vedic knowledge and ascetism and morality, almost completely ignoring, especially in modern times the kshatriya aspect which enabled the Vijayanagar Empire to come into existence.

    Madhwa and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

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