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Saturday, June 20, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
dark without any light from the sky it is always lit with candles At the first gate are doorkeepers who never allow any one to enter except the Brahmans that have charge of it and I because I gave something to them was allowed to enter Between gate and gate are images of little idols The principal idol is a round stone without "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
on in the city there is so much that you will go very far before you find another like it There are many pomegranates also grapes are sold at three bunches a fanam and pomegranates ten for fanam On the north side of the city is a very great river "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
people elephants This is the best provided city in the world and is stocked with provisions such as rice wheat grains Indian corn and a certain amount of barley and beans moong 1 pulses horse gram 2 and many other seeds which grow in this country which are the food of the people and there is large store of these and very cheap but wheat is not so common as the other grains since no one eats it except the Moors But you will find what I have mentioned The streets and markets are full of laden oxen without count so that you cannot get along for them and in many streets you come upon so many of them that you have to wait for them to pass or else have to go by another way There is much poultry they give three fowls in the city for a coin worth a vintem "
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Friday, June 19, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
wall The people in this city are countless in number so much so that I do not wish to write it down for fear it should be thought fabulous but I declare that no troops horse or foot could break their way through any street or lane so great are the numbers of the people and elephants This is the best provided city in the world and "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
not see it all because it lies between several ranges of hills What I saw from thence seemed to me as large as Rome and very beautiful to the sight there are many groves of trees within it in the gardens of the houses and many conduits of water which flow into the midst of it and in places there are lakes tamques and the king has close to his palace a palm grove and other rich bearing fruit trees Below the Moorish quarter is a little river and on this side are many "
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