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-IN considering our second period of Medieval India, which began about the tenth and ·elev• enth centuries, we shall miss the graphic word-pictures of a romancist like Bana.
in the new social groupings which brought the Rajputs to the front, created a large number of new castes, sub-divided castes (like the Brahman) into a number of territorial sub-divisions which were to all intents and purposes mutually exclusive, and gave rise to new conventions about occupations, the taking of meals, and inter-marriage.
-A great, social and economic feature of the time was the large number of endowments granted to individual Brahmans and to temples and religious foundations.
-It is recorded of the · grantee that his mother had made a pious endowment for providing sumptuous meals served in a silver vessel to a learned Brahman every day till the world's end, and also a big lamp to Hari (Vishnu) at Srirangam, Some idea may be obtained of the face of the country included in the Chola kingdom, from the allusion to the " dense forests of the seashore, crowded ·with the palm (presumably the (View the image of this page) talipot palm), the sal, the ebony, the areca (supftri) palm, and plantain trees and groves of betel leaves.
The Egyptian traveller · Shihab-ud-din Abul Abbas Ahmad also visited the Tughluq court at Delhi about the same time and has left us an excellent account of the city and the people, the court and the social life of the time.