Question

(a) Explain what historians meant by the integration of cults.
OR
(b) How were the water requirements of Vijayanagara met?​

Answer 1

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a) The integration of cults means that there was composition, compilation and preservation of Puranic texts in simple Sanskrit verse, explicitly meant to be accessible to women and Shudras, who were generally excluded from Vedic learning.

b) The requirement of water in Vijayanagara was fulfilled from the natural basin formed by the river Tungabhadra. This flowed in the north-eastern direction and was surrounded by stunning granite hills. It flowed down to the river Tungabhadra.So the rulers of the Vijayanagara got built large embankments

to store water.