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Historic Hampi, Capital of the Vijayanagara Empire
Story posted: 27. May 2011 by CPA Media
Pictures From History / Themes / HISTORIC HAMPIHistoric Hampi, Capital of the Vijayanagara Empire
'What I saw… seemed to me as large as Rome, and very beautiful to the sight… 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'.
Domingo Paes, Portuguese visitor to Hampi, c.1520
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Today Hampi is a village in southern India's Karnataka…
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The Ramayana, Great Epic of Hinduism - and Buddhism
Story posted: 24. May 2011 by CPA Media
Pictures From History / Themes / RAMAYANAThe Ramayana, Great Epic of Hinduism - and Buddhism
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It's a story as old as time and - at least in the Indian subcontinent and across much of Southeast Asia - of unparalleled popularity. More than two thousand three hundred years ago, at about the same time as Alexander the Great invaded north-west India, in another, less troubled part of that vast country the scholar-poet Valmiki sat down to write his definitive epic of love and war.
The…
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