Between Dehli and Agra, a distance of fifty or sixty leagues, there are no fine towns such as travellers pass through in France; the whole road is cheerless and uninteresting; nothing is worthy of observation but Maturas (Mathura), where an ancient and magnificent temple of idols is still to be seen (Bernier 1916: 284).

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Between Dehli and Agra, a distance of fifty or sixty leagues, there are no fine towns such as travellers pass through in France; the whole road is cheerless and uninteresting; nothing is worthy of observation but Maturas (Mathura), where an ancient and magnificent temple of idols is still to be seen (Bernier 1916: 284)." in the context of "Francois Bernier saw the temple in 1663, in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from Indian history." to mean that wisdom is timeless.