“Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street, full of rows of fine houses and streets of the sort I have described, and it is to be understood that the houses belong to men rich enough to afford such. In this street live many merchants, and there you will find all sorts of rubies, and diamonds, and emeralds, and pearls, and seed pearls, and cloths, and every other sort of thing there is on earth and that you may wish to buy” ~~~ Domingos Paes (Portuguese traveler who visited Hampi during (AD 1520-22) during the reign of Emperor Krishnadevaraya ) We pulled out of Agra and boarded the local bus cooled by fans to journey into the country side. After a few hours we switched to jeeps for the bumpy rural roads. As we rattled
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