As the wooden structures made in the Vijayanagara Empire are lost. What is the source used to reconstruct some aspects of the vibrant life of the times.

Descriptions left by travellers

The correct answer is Option (4) → Descriptions left by travellers

It is worth remembering something that John M. Fritz, George Michell and M.S. Nagaraja Rao, who worked for years at the site, wrote: “In our study of these monuments of Vijayanagara we have to imagine a whole series of vanished wooden elements – columns, brackets, beams, ceilings, overhanging eaves, and towers – decorated with plaster and painted, perhaps brightly.” Although wooden structures are lost, and only stone structures survive, the descriptions left by travellers allow us to reconstruct some aspects of the vibrant life of the times.