A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.153

c14.153

² The descriptions are rather vague, but, if I am right in supposing that there was a long bazaar called the Pânsupâri bazaar, along the road leading from the palace gate to the Ânegundi gate on the river, it must certainly have been crossed by another road, and probably therefore a road lined with shops, leading from the Kâmalâpura gate of the inner enclosure northwards to the great Hampi temple. Close to the gate of the palace proper these roads would intersect at right angles, and would form four separate bazaars or streets. The galleries and porticoes are now not in existence, but the remains in the street running east from the Hampi temple will show what the galleries were like in those days. This last street alone is half a mile long.