Trip to the Past

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Vijayanagara Empire History The Vijayanagara Empire, also called as the Kingdom of Bisnegar by the Portuguese, was an empire based in South India, in the Deccan Plateau region. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of Sangama Dynasty. Before the early 14th-century rise of the Vijayanagara Empire, the Hindu states of the Deccan, the Yadava Empire of Devagiri , the Kakatiya dynasty of Warangal, the Pandyan Empire of Madurai, and the tiny kingdom of Kampili had been repeatedly invaded by Muslims from the north, and by 1336 they had all been defeated by Alla - ud -din Khilji and Muhammad bin Tughluq , the Sultans of Delhi. After the death of Hoysala king Veera Ballala III during a battle against the Sultan of Madurai in 1343, the Hoysala Empire merged with the growing Vijayanagara empire.

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Architecture Vijayanagara architecture is a vibrant combination of the Chalukyan , Hoysalan , Pandyan and Cholan styles, idioms that prospered in previous centuries. In the 14th century the kings continued to build vesara or Deccan-style monuments but later incorporated Dravida -style gopurams to meet their ritualistic needs. An aspect of Vijayanagara architecture that shows the cosmopolitanism of the great city is the presence of many secular structures bearing Islamic features. While the empire's monuments are spread over the whole of Southern India, nothing surpasses the vast open-air theatre of monuments at its capital at Vijayanagara , a UNESCO World Heritage Site.