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NDA 2 2025 GAT, question 23

Topic: Ordering of sentences

Directions · Q21 to Q25

In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

Q23

S1. Vijayanagara or ‘city of victory’ was the name of both a city and an empire

S6. They remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi

P. In its heyday it stretched from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the Indian peninsula

Q. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it continued to live in the memories of the people who inhabited the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab

R. In 1565 the city was sacked and subsequently deserted

S. The Empire was founded in the fourteenth century

  1. (a) S P R QCorrect answer
  2. (b) S Q P R
  3. (c) P Q S R
  4. (d) P Q R S

Solution.

Answer: (a) S P R Q

  1. S gives the empire’s foundation, P its greatest extent, R the sack of 1565, and Q its later survival in local memory.
  2. S6 explains the remembered name.
  3. The chronological and referential order is S–P–R–Q.