Hampi is a perfectly preserved city state with all the depradations attributable solely to the period when it was consumed by fire lit up by the conquerors of the Vijaynagar empire and the pillage and destruction wrought upon it when it crumbled.
The Vijayanagara Empire created a milestone in uniting Southern India in a fold of Hinduism transcending the regionalism.
This is the narrow pathway to the Great Chariot mionument and if you were to look closely only the top crumbling burnt brick structure appears to be from the original structure. The rest seems to have been constructed/assembled later on courtsey the Archeological Survey of India.
Am autorickshaw stood on one side and if you wonder why? There are 2 humans on the top of the middle part of the archway engaged in a photoshoot.
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