Raconteur, Domingo Paes

Raconteur
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Being the trade heart for the entire of South India with the ports of Bhatkal, Cochin, Goa, and the other important ports beneath its be in charge of, Vijayanagara was visited by a lot of overseas traders & delegates. The Empire had so many Ambassadors from all over the parts of the globe including the places from Europe, but the contract of thanks should be given to the people who came to India as Raconteur, who, from beginning to end their recording of their era, helped us in thoughtful the life, and beauty of Vijayanagara kingdom and its affairs with new kingdoms in India and around the globe throughout that era. The overseas guests to the Vijayanagara kingdom or the neighboring states are recorded in the diagram below along with the estimated years during which they made their recordings. We also record the name of the ruler in Vijayanagara during that period.

Vijayanagara Rulers with their years

• Nicolo De Conti Italy 1419-1444 Deva Raya I
• Bukka Raya III
• Deva Raya II
• Duarte Barbosa Portugal 1504-1514 Krishna Deva Raya
• Fernao Nuniz Portugal 1536-1537 Achyuta Deva Raya
• Domingo Paes Portugal 1520 Krishna Deva Raya
• Abdur Razzak Persia 1443 Deva Raya II
• Athanasius Nikitin Russia 1468-1474 Virupaksha Raya II
• Garcia Da Orta Portugal 1534 Achyuta Deva Raya
• Ludovico di Varthema Italy 1502-1507 Krishna Deva Raya
• Caesaro Federici Italy 1567 Vira Sadashiva Raya
• Firishtah Persia 1596 Venkatapati Deva Raya II
• Pietro della Valle Italy 1623 Rama Deva Raya

Domingo Paes
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Of all the overseas travelers who come to the Vijayanagara kingdom, Domingo Paes' recordings are of distinctive standards as they provide first hand bright, graphic description of his special and personal experiences about the Vijayanagara Kingdom.

He was stayed at the Hindu Capital at the period of its uppermost glory. HE visited the capital under the rule of Krishnadevaraya, the most dominant ruler of Vijayanagara Kingdom. He also had so much wealth of Vijayanagara and also the most bravely fought the battles of Vijayanagara. The encounter of Raichur between the magnificent defense force of KrishnaDevaRaya consisting about a million and Adil Shah of Bijapur.

Domingo Paes visited the Vijayanagara Kingdom about 1520A.D. he was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first who accompanied Christovao de Figueiredo, a Portuguese issue.

Regarding the ports under the rule of Vijayanagara, Domingo Paes writes - "The said monarchy has many places on the coast of India, they are sea ports with which we are at calm, and in some of them we have factories, i.e., Bacanor, Amcola, Bracalor, Batecalla, Mamgalor, Honor, and Mirgeo."

At the time of writing about the irrigation, the land has plenty of rice and Indian corn, beans, grains, and all other kind of crops that are not sown in our parts, also an perpetuity of fiber. Of the grains their is a enormous amount, this is because, besides being used as food for human, it is also used for animals like horse and other animals, since there were no other brand of barley, and this country has also much wheat.

This country wants water because it is that very great and has few streams; they make lakes in which water collects when it rains, and in this manner they preserve themselves. About the market Paes writes, ‘Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street, full of rows of fine houses and streets of the sort I have described, and it is to be understood that 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 and nags, and also many citrons, and limes, and oranges, and grapes, and every other kind of garden stuff, and wood; you have all in this street.’

About the Vijayanagara he writes, that ‘The size of this city I do not write here, because it cannot all be seen from any one spot, but I climbed a hill whence I could see a great part of it; I could not see it all for the reason that it lies linking 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; and the king has close to his palace a palm-grove and other rich-bearing fruit-trees’.

"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, pulses, horse-gram, and a lot of other seeds which grow in this country which are the food of the nation, 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 apart from the Moors."

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