DESECRATED JEWELS OF BHARATAM ....SERIES[TM] HAMPI ~ VIJAYNAGARAM ...destroyed because the traitors in muslim soldiers of Vijaynagar went to their state enemies their religous brothers of islam the BAHMANI KINGDOM !! Vijaya Nagara the name of the now-ruined capital city that surrounds modern-day Hampi, of the historic Vijayanagara empire which extended over the southern part of India. In around 1500 Vijaynagar had 500,000 inhabitants, probably making it the second largest city in the world after Peking-Beijing and twice the size of Paris back then. This state and city attracted many of the Hindu refugees from the north. From contemporary accounts, it appears that the city was rich and very beautiful—The city is such that eye has not seen nor ear heard of any place resembling it upon earth, says Abdur-Razzak from Central Asia. There were arcades and magnificent galleries for the bazaars, and rising above them all was the palace of the king surrounded by many rivulets and streams flowing through channels of cut stone, polished and even. The whole city was full of gardens, and because of them, as an Italian visitor in 1420, Nicolo Conti writes, the circumference of the city was sixty miles. A later visitor was Paes, a Portuguese who came in 1522 after having visited the Italian cities of the Renaissance. The city of Vijayanagar, he says, is as large as Rome and very beautiful to the sight; it is full of charm and wonder with its innumerable lakes and waterways and fruit gardens. It is the best-provided city in the world and everything abounds. The chambers of the palace were a mass of ivory, with roses and lotuses carved in ivory at the top--it is so rich and beautiful that you would hardly find anywhere, another such.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:50:01 +0000