History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s16.4

v1.c19.s16.4

Its time of greatest prosperity was between the accession of Krishna Deva, 1508, and the death of Achyuta Râya, 1542, and it is to their reigns that the finest monuments in the city must be ascribed. There is, perhaps, no other city in all India in which ruins exist in such profusion or in such variety as in Vijayanagar, and as they are all certainly comprised within the century and a half, or—at the utmost—the two centuries that preceded the destruction of the city, their analogies afford us dates that hardly admit of dispute.