History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s17.29

v1.c19.s17.29

The palace buildings at Vijayanagar are much more detached and scattered than those either at Tanjor or Madurâ, but they are older, and probably represent only some of the detached and less important buildings of what existed previous to the sack of the city in 1565, when the Musalmâns rased the chief buildings to the ground.¹ What still remains reproduces more nearly the style of a Hindû prince's civil buildings, before they fell completely under the sway of Moslim influence. The remains of the palace consists of a number of detached pavilions, baths, harems, and other buildings, that certainly were situated in gardens, and may, consequently, have had a unity we miss in their present state of desolation. One of these pavilions is represented in the next woodcut (No. 243). It is a fair specimen of that picturesque mixed style which arose from the mixture of the Saracenic and Hindû styles.