Foreign accounts
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इ.स. 75 मध्ये ________ यांनी भारतातील निर्यातीचा संदर्भ असलेला 'नॅचरल हिस्ट्री' हा ग्रंथ लिहिला. ________ wrote 'Natural History' in 75 A.D. in which there are references to exports from India.
Pliny the Elder wrote 'Natural History' (Naturalis Historia) around 75 A.D., which provides extensive details on Roman trade, including large-scale bullion drain to India for exports.
उतरेकडील पुष्कळशा हिंदू निवा्रसितांना या राज्याने आणि शहराने आकर्षित केले. समकालीन वर्णनावरून असे वाटते की हे शहर श्रीमंत आणि खूप सुंदर असावे. अब्दूर रज्जाक म्हणतो, 'पृथ्वीतलावर इतरत्र कुठेही असे शहर डोळ्यांनी बघितले नाही, किंवा संपूर्ण पृथ्वीवर असे शहर आहे असे कानांनी ऐकले नाही.' या वाक्यांतून कोणत्या राज्याचा आणि शहराचा उल्लेख केला आहे ? / This state and city attracted many of the Hindu refugees from the North. From the contemporary accounts it appears that the city was rich and very beautiful. 'The city is such that eye has not seen nor ear heard of any place resembling it upon the whole earth', says Abdur Razzak. Which city and state get referred in these sentences ?
The traveler Abdur Razzak highly praised the wealth, beauty, and grandeur of the Vijayanagar empire and its capital city.