Kampili Kingdom

The Map of Indian subcontinent in c. 1320 CE, with Kampili kingdom shown in the southern parts of Karnataka.
A Shiva temple on Hemakuta hill in Hampi was built by Kampilideva, the last raja of the Kampili Kingdom.

The Kampili Kingdom was a short-lived Hindu kingdom in the 14th century CE in South India.[1][2] The kingdom existed near Ballari in the Tungabhadra river in the northeastern parts of the present-day Karnataka state, India.[2] It was destroyed after a defeat by the armies of the Tughlaq dynasty and a Jauhar (mass suicide) in 1327 CE when it faced a defeat.[3][4] The Kampili kingdom in some historical accounts is called the Basnaga kingdom, and as what inspired and ultimately led to the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire.[5]

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  2. ^ a b Cynthia Talbot (2001). Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford University Press. pp. 281–282. ISBN 978-0-19-803123-9.
  3. ^ Mary Storm (2015). Head and Heart: Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India. Taylor & Francis. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-317-32556-7.
  4. ^ Kanhaiya L Srivastava (1980). The position of Hindus under the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 202. ISBN 9788121502245.
  5. ^ David Gilmartin; Bruce B. Lawrence (2000). Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia. University Press of Florida. pp. 300–306, 321–322. ISBN 978-0-8130-3099-9.