"In 1522, the Portuguese traveler Domingos Paes had visited Vijayanagar, and reported that it was comparable in size to Rome, with a population of five hundred thousand. He called Vijayanagar âthe best provided city in the worldâŚfor the state of this city is not like that of other cities, which often fail of supplies and provisions, for in this one everything abounds.â Inside the palace, he saw a room âall of ivory, as well the chamber as the walls from top to bottom, and the pillars of the cross-timbers at the top had roses and flowers of lotuses all of ivory, and all well executed, so that there could not be betterâit is so rich and beautiful that you would hardly find anywhere another such.â"
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Domingo Paes in Smith, The Oxford History of India. Quoted from Spencer, Robert (2018). The history of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS.
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