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."
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