第145章 NOTES(7)

[198]--The name may represent "Timma Raja."[199]--"Commentaries of Dalboquerque,"iii.pp.246--247.

[200]--Firishtah (Scott),i.p.236.

[201]--"Commentaries of Dalboquerque,"iv.121.

[202]--"East Africa and Malabar"(Hakluyt edit.,pp.73,&c.).Barbosa was son of Diego Barbosa,who sailed in the first fleet sent out under Joao de Nova in 1501.He gives no dates in his own writings except that he finished his work in 1516(Preface),after "having navigated for a great part of his youth in the East Indies."It was probably begun about 1514.He was certainly in the Indian Ocean in 1508--9.The heading of the work is "Description of the East Indies and Countries on the sea-board of the Indian Ocean in 1514."It was published in Spanish (translated from the Portuguese)in 1524.The copy in the Library at Barcelona is said to be the oldest extant.

[203]--This name awaits explanation.

[204]--This probably refers to the highly decorated building in the interior of what I believe to have been the Government offices,surrounded by a lofty wall with watch-towers,and often called "The Zenana"The elephant stables lie to the east of it.The building in question is "No.29Council Room"on the Government plan.

[205]--Barbosa in A.D.1514mentions this expedition.

[206]--An inscription at Kondavid glorifying Saluva Timma states that he took the fortress on Saturday,June 23,A.D.1515(Ashadha Sukla Harivasara Saurau,Saka 1437).This information was kindly supplied to me by Dr.Luders.

[207]--There is a long inscription in the temple of Varadarajasvami at Conjeeveram exactly confirming this whole story,It relates that the king first captured Udayagiri,Bellamkonda,Vinukonda,Kondavid,and other places;then Bezvada and Kondapalle,and finally Rajahmundry.

[208]--Pp 354to 371.

[209]--Krishna Raya in 1515was only about twenty-nine years old;but we must not forget the Hindu custom of the marriages of girls while infants.

[210]--If this refers to Krishna Raya's capture of that place in 1515,it is to be noted here that Nuniz asserts that it was taken,not from the Muhammadans,but from the king of Orissa.

[211]--Firishtah's account of this is that Ismail Adil joined with Amir Barid in an attack on Telingana and laid siege to Kovilkonda.Vijayanagar had no part in the causes of the campaign.

[212]--Firishtah tells this story of Jamshid Qutb Shah,Quli's successor (1543--50).

[213]--So says Nuniz,but,as before stated,Firishtah differs.In my opinion we must accept the former as correct,for his account is so graphic and detailed that it is impossible to believe that he could have been mistaken.Firishtah did not write for many years later and was much more liable to en on Several Portuguese were present at the siege,and,if I am not mistaken,either Nuniz was there himself,or obtained his information from those who were so.The story bears all the marks of a personal narrative.

[214]--Pp.323to 347below.

[215]--On the Ordnance Map I observe on the river-bank,thirteen miles N.N.E.of Raichur,a plan of what appears to be a large fortified camp,with its base on the river,the average of its west,south,and east faces being about a mile each It lies just below the junction of the Bhima and Krishna rivers,and two miles west of the present railway station on the latter river.What this may be I know not,but it looks like the remains of an entrenched camp erected in some former year.Perhaps some one will examine the place.

[216]--Below,p.263."These feasts begin on the twelfth of September,and they last nine days."[217]--Below,p.281."At the beginning of the month of October when eleven of its days had passed....On this day begins their year;it is their New Year's Day....They begin the year in this month with the new moon,and they count the months always from moon to moon."[218]--Below,p.243.

[219]--"On the upper platform,close to the king,was Christovao de Figueiredo,with all of us who came with him,for the king commanded that he should be in such a place,so as best to see the feasts and magnificence."(Paes,p.264below.)[220]--Lib.v.c 57.

[221]--TANADARIS are small local divisions of the kingdom,each under its own petty official.A THANAH is a police-station in modern parlance.I can think of no English word exactly suitable,but,as far as area is concerned,perhaps the term "parish"would best express the meaning.

[222]--LENDAS DA INDIA,ii.581.

[223]--Menezes assumed charge of the Viceroyalty on January 22,1522.A short summary of Sequeira's career is given in the interesting MS.volume called the LIVRO DAS FORTALEZAS DA INDIA,of which the text was written by Antonio Bocarro,and the numerous portraits and plans were drawn and coloured by Pero Barretto de Rezenda.The British Museum copy is in the Sloane Collection and bears the number "197."[224]--Dec.III.1.in cap.4.

[225]--IDEM,cap.5.

[226]--IDEM,cap.8.

[227]--IDEM,cap.9.

[228]--IDEM,cap.10.

[229]--"Asia Portugueza"of Faria y Souza,I.Pt.iii.cap.4(Stevens'translation).

[230]--Compare Nuniz (text,p.329).

[231]--These numbers are probably taken from Barros,who copied Nuniz.

[232]--"Asia Portugueza,"I.Pt.iii.cap.4,sec.5."Ruy de Mello,que estava a Goa,viendo al Hidalchan divertido con sus ruinas o esperancas,o todo junto,y a muchos en perciales remolinos robando la tierra firme de aquel contorno,ganola facilmente con dozientos y sincuenta cavallos,y ochocientos peones Canaries"[233]--"Histoire des Descouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais"(Paris,1733).

[234]--Danvers,"The Portuguese in India,"i.347,gives us the same dates for Sequeira's absence,and mentions De Figueiredo's presence at the battle of Raichur.

[235]--The corresponding actual new moon day in May 1521was Monday,May 6,and the new moon was first visible on Wednesday.In 1522the actual new moon day was Sunday,May 25,and it was first visible on Tuesday.