According to the french traveller tavernier the majority of houses in varanasi during 1th centuary were made of what?
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Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605 – 1689) travelled to Varanasi in India, in 1665. He described that houses and other structures were mostly made of mud and clay. Some had made use of stones, slate and wood.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier was a traveller and gem merchant who made several voyages to Persia and India. His records of India and its architectural splendour are valuable, as some of these monuments were later destroyed by Muslim invaders.
Mud or pucca houses.
The concave bank of the Ganges is erosional while the convex bank is depositional in nature.
The concave bank may cave in and create heavy destruction while the convex bank progrades by continuous deposition.
Therefore, it prevents easy accessibility to water.
On such a prominent natural levee of the left bank, the meandering of the river Ganga is situated in Varanasi and therefore, houses were of mud at that time.