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Snippets from the travelogue of Domingo Paes (written around 1520 - 1522 A.D)

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: "

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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