A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t14.21

c21.s3.t14.21

Outside these two cities are fields and places richly cultivated with wheat and gram and rice and millet, for this last is the grain which is most consumed in the land; and next to it betel (*betre*), which is a thing that in the greater part of the country they always eat and carry in the mouth.