Wednesday, June 10, 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: "

(Footnote: Darcha is likely to be current Dharwar)

high These pagodas are buildings in which they pray and have their idols the idols are of many sorts namely figures of men and women of bulls and apes while others have nothing but a round stone which they worship In this temple of Darcha is an idol in the figure of a man as to his body and the face is that of an elephant with trunk and tusks 4 and with three arms on each side and six hands of which arms they say that already four are gone and when all fall then the world will be destroyed they are full of belief that this will be and hold it as a prophecy They feed the idol every day for they say that he eats and when he eats women dance before him who belong to that pagoda and they give him food "
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