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To ‘honour the foreigners’ is evidenced in receiving the Portuguese delegation and their gifts. We witness the king watching classical Kuchipudi dance presenting Mandodari Sabdam and eulogising Ravana in the same breath as the King and confabulating on expanding the northern boundaries to Bijapur.
Nehru quotes Paes: He is the most feared and perfect king that could possibly be, cheerful of disposition and very merry: he is one that seeks to honour foreigners, and receives them kindly, asking about all their affairs whatever their condition may be. In the ensuing drama, Krishna Deva Raya is seen occupying the throne after some palace intrigues upstaging the aspirant Achyuta Deva Raya. The chambers of the palace are a mass of ivory, with roses and lotuses carved in ivory at the top it is so rich and beautiful that you would hardly find anywhere another such…
It is the best-provided city in the world and everything abounds.
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With splendid aerial views of Vijaynagar, we can hear Nehru approvingly quoting Domingo Paes, the Portuguese visitor who came in 1522 AD after visiting the Italian cities of the Renaissance: The city of Vijaynagar is as large as Rome and very beautiful to the sight it is full of charm and wonder: with its innumerable lakes and waterways and fruit gardens. There were arcades and magnificent galleries for the bazaars, and rising above them all was the palace of the king, surrounded by many rivulets and streams flowing through channels of cut stone, polished and even… Said Abdur-Razzak, a traveller from Central Asia: The city is such that eye has not seen nor ear heard of any palace resembling it upon the whole earth. From contemporary accounts, it appears that the city was incredibly rich and beautiful. This state and the city attracted many Hindu refugees from the north. But South India was comparatively well off with Vijaynagar as the largest and most powerful of the southern kingdoms. After this terrible affliction, North India remained weak and divided into small potentates. Nehru records how, late in the 14th century, Timur Lang, the Turk, swooped down from the north and smashed up the Delhi Sultanate. Raghuvanshi as the Ambassador, Ajay Kumar as Achyutadevaraya, and Muneera Surati as Mother. With Om Puri as Krishnadevaraya, Salim Ghouse as Ramaraya, Anjan Srivastava as Appaji, Richard Lane-Smith as Father Luiz, Fr. A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster