LORD VIRUPAKSHA OF HAMPI

As the tenor of life went on smooth with people going to temples, listening to discourses, attending to naimithika daivakaryas, under the guidance of Brahmins - the vignanabhaskaras, who served the community acting as intermediaries between God and man; officials discharging their duties to the best of abilities deeming duty as beauty, motivated by the ideality of universal welfare, fuelled by integrity steered by the all vigilant eyes of the king, acting as the deputy of God in word and action; merchants knitting the world with the ceaseless activity of import and export of commodities; laboring class, the backbone of the nation, rocking the cradle of progress by their sturdy hand, there was peace and plenty to the extent that it has neither equals nor superiors anywhere in any point of time. Life in the metropolitan capital was akin to that of the one in Devendra's Amaravathy in its exuberant vibrancy, radiant opulence and abundant luxuriance.No wonder that the foreign visitors like Nicolo Conti, Addut, Razaak, Domingo paces, Fernao Nuniz etc. poured out their hearts in fantastic phrases on seeing the most costliest items such as Navaratnas and gold jewels heaped up in markets, as we see Navadhanyas and vegetables today, spices and scents, primarily now meant for aristocracy and royalty were used as indispensable necessities even by the wage earners, mirroring the high stage of culture they reached.

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