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も8切 পরিশিষ্ট । were teemed with students eager to learn ஆd Of eager to earn money. Great facilities seem to been afforded by the Rayas of Vijayanagar for trading purposes, and the exports the imports of this imperial city were on a correspondingly large scale. It is alleged on good authority, that there were 4ooo large, well-built and important temples in the city, and what must have been the number of the smaller fanes which were erected to satisfy the religious faith of this huge population ? There were 20,ooo palanquins and litters always ready with the King, and the number of their bearers must have been more than 20oooo people. Making similar attempts to calculate the population of this grand city, 3ooo,ooo (thirty lacs) would not be considered as an exaggerated figure to represent "the huge population which was contained within the city proper and its inmediate suburbs. All foreign travellers testify to the fact, that they found enormous wealth in the city and that the display of jewels was simply dazzling and unrivalled. For nearly three centuries the city of Vijayanagar grew rapidly in wealth and importance, and was talked of, as the most splendid city in the world, by all those who had the fortune to visit it personally.