Storia do Mogor 265.5.4

265.5.4

The learned men of Hindustan are in the habit of writing on metal plates. This is from the habit they have of preserving the memory of antiquity. On one of these plates it is written that from the port of Surat, and Dyo (Diu) in Hindustan, caravans started for Mecca by land. Nowadays all is sea: Surat, Barocha (Bharoch), Cambaja (Kambayat), Dyo (Diu), Syndi (Sind) — all these are at present on the shore of the sea. In my time the Mahomedans destroyed the temple [at Trivambur] and the enclosure referred to in order to erect new buildings, for they abominate the antiquities of the Hindus.