Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda

Why in news?

• The Prime Minister has unveiled a 108-feet-long bronze statue of Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in Bengaluru. The statue has been named as the Statue of Prosperity.

About Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda:

• Nadaprabhu Kempegowda is a 16th-century chieftain of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• He belonged to the Vokkaliga community in south Karnataka.

Achievements:

• He is credited as the founder of Bengaluru City. It is said that he conceived the idea of a new city while hunting with his minister and later marked its territory by erecting towers in four corners of the proposed city.
• He is also known to have developed around 1,000 lakes in the city to cater to drinking and agricultural needs.
• One of his social reforms was to prohibit the custom of amputating the last two fingers of the left hand of unmarried women during “Bandi Devaru”, an important custom of Morasu Vokkaligas.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Recently, the Prime Minister of India unveiled a statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in Bengaluru. He was a chieftain under which of the following Empire?

(a) Satavahanas

(b) Vijayanagara

(c) Pallava

(d) Hoysala

Answer