idol-shrine

Updated: June 26, 2025

As soon as you enter this idol-shrine, you perceive from pillar to pillar on which it is supported many little holes in which stand oil lamps, which burn, so they tell me, every night, and they will be in number two thousand five hundred or three thousand lights.

Fernão Nunes - A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India