[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster) › 26.2.3 # The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 26.2.3 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster) 26.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [26.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2.3) The king Passd only from on syde of the Towne to the other; which was one of the best built I euer saw in Indya, for that ther were some howses two storyes high, and most such as a Pedler might not scorne to keepe shop in, all couered with tile. It had beene the seate of a Raza Rasboot before the conquest of Ecbarsha; and stoode at the foote of a great rock, very strong, had many excellent woorkes of hewed stone about yt exellently cutt, many Tanckes, arched, vawted, and discents made lardge and of great depth. By it stood a delicat groue of 2 mile long, a quarter broad, Planted by Industry with Mangoes, Tamerins, and other fruictes, deuided with walkes, and full of little Temples and alters of Pagods and Gentiliticall Idolatrye, many fountaynes, welles, tanckes, and summer howses of Carued stone, Curiously arched; so that I must confesse a banished englishman might haue beene content to dwell there. But this obseruation is generall that ruine and distruction eates vp all. For since the Proprietye of all is come to the king, no man takes care for Particulars, so that in euery Place appeares the vastations and spoyles of warr without reparation. - [Previous: 26.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2.2) - [Next: 26.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2.4) - [Up: 26.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.26.2.3) · Pramāṇa