Saturday, June 20, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
dark without any light from the sky it is always lit with candles At the first gate are doorkeepers who never allow any one to enter except the Brahmans that have charge of it and I because I gave something to them was allowed to enter Between gate and gate are images of little idols The principal idol is a round stone without "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
on in the city there is so much that you will go very far before you find another like it There are many pomegranates also grapes are sold at three bunches a fanam and pomegranates ten for fanam On the north side of the city is a very great river "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
people elephants This is the best provided city in the world and is stocked with provisions such as rice wheat grains Indian corn and a certain amount of barley and beans moong 1 pulses horse gram 2 and many other seeds which grow in this country which are the food of the people and there is large store of these and very cheap but wheat is not so common as the other grains since no one eats it except the Moors But you will find what I have mentioned The streets and markets are full of laden oxen without count so that you cannot get along for them and in many streets you come upon so many of them that you have to wait for them to pass or else have to go by another way There is much poultry they give three fowls in the city for a coin worth a vintem "
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Friday, June 19, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
wall The people in this city are countless in number so much so that I do not wish to write it down for fear it should be thought fabulous but I declare that no troops horse or foot could break their way through any street or lane so great are the numbers of the people and elephants This is the best provided city in the world and "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
not see it all because it lies between several ranges of hills What I saw from thence seemed to me as large as Rome and very beautiful to the sight there are many groves of trees within it in the gardens of the houses and many conduits of water which flow into the midst of it and in places there are lakes tamques and the king has close to his palace a palm grove and other rich bearing fruit trees Below the Moorish quarter is a little river and on this side are many "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
the houses belong to men rich enough to afford such In this street live many merchants and there you will find all sorts of rubies and diamonds and emeralds and pearls and seed pearls and cloths and every other sort of thing there is on earth and that you may wish to buy Then you have there every evening a fair where they sell many common horses "
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes:
"in the middle of the city it cannot but be useful This palace of the king is surrounded by a very strong wall like some of the others and encloses a greater space teraa moor ferca than all the castle of Lisbon Still going forward passing to the other gate you "
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes:
"men who bear office in his kingdom and govern his cities and his favourites talk with them The greatest favourite is an old man called Temersea l he commands the whole household and to him all the great lords act as to the king After the king has talked with these men on subjects pleasing to him "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
and gallops about the plain in one direction and another till dawn for he does all this before daybreak Then he goes to wash himself and a Brahman washes "
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A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
receive a large salary This king is accustomed every day to drink a quartilho three quarter pint of oil of gingelly before daylight and anoints himself all over with the said oil he covers his loins with a small cloth and takes in his arms great weights made of earthenware and then taking a sword he exercises himself with it till he has sweated out all the oil and then he wrestles with one of his wrestlers After this labour he mounts a horse 1 Emgellym sesamum or gingelly an oil seed "
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Friday, June 12, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "

The king is of medium height, and of fair com-
plexion and good figure rather fat than thin he has on his face signs of small pox He is the most feared and perfect king that could possibly be cheerful of NARRATIVE OF PAES 247 "
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar) a contribution to the history of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
person may do may betel is a herb which has a leaf like the leaf of the pepper or the ivy of our country they always eat this leaf and carry it in their mouths with another fruit called areca This is something like a medlar but it is very hard and it is very good for the breath and has many other virtues it is the best provision for those who do not eat as we do Some of them eat flesh they eat all kinds except beef and pork and yet nevertheless they cease not to eat this betel all day Afterwards going from this city of Darcha towards "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
women belong to the temple These women are of loose character and live in the best streets that there are in the city it is the same in all their cities their streets have the best rows of houses They are very much esteemed and are classed amongst those honoured ones who are the mistresses of the captains any respectable man may go to their houses without any blame attaching thereto These women are allowed even to enter the presence of the wives of the king and they stay with them and eat betel with them a thing which no other person may do no matter what his rank may be This betel is a herb which has leaf like the leaf of the "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "

(Footnote: Darcha is likely to be current Dharwar)

high These pagodas are buildings in which they pray and have their idols the idols are of many sorts namely figures of men and women of bulls and apes while others have nothing but a round stone which they worship In this temple of Darcha is an idol in the figure of a man as to his body and the face is that of an elephant with trunk and tusks 4 and with three arms on each side and six hands of which arms they say that already four are gone and when all fall then the world will be destroyed they are full of belief that this will be and hold it as a prophecy They feed the idol every day for they say that he eats and when he eats women dance before him who belong to that pagoda and they give him food "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "
with their pedestals1 so well executed that they appear as if made in Italy all the cross pieces and beams are of the same stone without any planks or timber being used 241 "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

as far as Persia The population thereof is light coloured and the men are of good physique Its king has much treasure and many soldiers and many elephants for there are numbers of these in this country My informants know this well and they say that there is no ruler greater than he He is a heathen Coming back to our subject I say that I will not "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

cattle buffaloes cows oxen and other small cattle that drink in them For you must know that in this land they do not slaughter oxen or cows the oxen are beasts of burden and are like sumpter mules these carry all their goods They worship the cows and have them in their pagodas made in stone and also bulls they have many bulls that they present to these pagodas and these bulls go about the city without any one causing them any harm or loss Further there are asses in this country but they are small and they use them only for little things those that wash clothes lay the cloths on them and use them for this more than for anything "
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes

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A Forgotten Empire

Bisnaga - Vijayanagar
Crisnarao! - Sri Krishnadeva Rayalu

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of India By Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes: "bringing away his quire of paper written about its affairs Thus I obtained this summary from one Domingos Paes who goes there and who was at Bisnaga in the time of Crisnarao when Cristovao de Figueiredo was there I obtained another from Fernao Nuniz who was there "
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