Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . ( 299 ),. nUISED GATEWAY AT VIJAYANACAIt. CHAPTER LVII. VlJAYANAGAK. The kingdom of Vijayanagar—Besnagar, and Narsinga ofmedieval travellers—modern Hampe—was the greatest inSouthern India known to history, and occupied from sea to seathe limits of the Madras Presidency. It did not last long ( to 1565). Its cai)ital, of the same name, was of enormousextent, and \ied with the greatest cities of antiquity— tlie three,Babylon, Memphis, and Xineveh— a kind of Sevastopol, which drew down upon it the wrath offour great nations who waged M-
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . ( 299 ),. nUISED GATEWAY AT VIJAYANACAIt. CHAPTER LVII. VlJAYANAGAK. The kingdom of Vijayanagar—Besnagar, and Narsinga ofmedieval travellers—modern Hampe—was the greatest inSouthern India known to history, and occupied from sea to seathe limits of the Madras Presidency. It did not last long ( to 1565). Its cai)ital, of the same name, was of enormousextent, and \ied with the greatest cities of antiquity— tlie three,Babylon, Memphis, and Xineveh— a kind of Sevastopol, which drew down upon it the wrath offour great nations who waged M-ar with it and not in vain. Tliecity for a century had accumulated all the mythology, all the X 2 300 VIJAYANAGA-R. letters and all the poetry of Soutlieni India, until it came to beregarded as the bulwark of Hinduism against Mughal invasionfrom the north. Entrenched behind seven walls of enormousstrength, it continued to defy domestic dissension and foreignaggression for ages, ami the capital was never overrun until theEmpire was destroyed. It was
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