Persian traveller Abdur Razzaq, came to India in 1443 (during the time Deva Ray II) gives very impressive desctiption of city of Vijayanagara. He wrote that Vijayanagara was an unprecedented city, the life of which was neither ever heard or seen in the whole word. This city is built in such a way that its seven guarding fort gates are built within each other. In the city there is a separate market place of every occupation. The royal palace is very fast.
Domingo Paes, a Portuguese traveller had described that Vijayanagara was the most prosperous city having vast granries of rice, wheat etc. The market roadside of the city were full of innumerable things.
