A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s2.159

c21.s2.159

² All these buildings are utterly destroyed, but there is no doubt that careful and systematic excavations would disclose the whole plan of the palace, and that in the ruins and débris would be found the remains of the beautiful sculptures described. Close behind the great decorated pavilion, from which the king and his court witnessed the feasts described by Paes, and therefore close to the gate just alluded to, are to be seen, half-buried in earth and débris, two large stone doors, each made of a single slab. The stone has been cut in panels to imitate woodwork, and has large staples carved from the same block.