"Add to this the destruction of the city of Bisnagar, residence of the king of all this part of India, who is called king of Narsinga in the geographical maps; a name which cannot be traced here; (a city) larger than Cairo, according to the Moors who had seen both of them. It had so much traffic you couldn’t even imagine; being astonishingly large, inhabited by rich people, not like we, whose riches can be enclosed in a small case, but as people like Crassus and others used to be in those times: it absorbed and coped with the large quantities of merchandise which came our places via Alexandria and Syria, and the many cloths and drapes which were produced in so great quantities were sold here. And the traffic was so big that the road from this country to that one was so crowded as the streets in a fair; and the profit of this business was so sure, that it sufficed to carry the goods there: no matter what the merchants brought, within the fifteen days the trip on land took they earned 25 or 30 per cent on both sides, since they carried other goods from there on the return journey; and which goods! Diamonds, rubies and pearls, on which they made a large profit."
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(d) Destroyed city larger than Cairo, letter sent to Florence on January 22 1586, by Filippo Sassetti Prodosh Aich, Lies With Long Legs, Discoveries, Scholars, Science,Enlightenment, Documentry Narration, Samskriti, 2004, p., 72 quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume III Chapter 12
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