Storia do Mogor 265.2.3

265.2.3

It seems to me that the reader will be pleased if I insert some account of the empire of Narsinga (Nar Singh), of the Hindu race, whose court was in the Karnatik. More than two hundred years ago there reigned an emperor called Ramrajo (Ram Rajah), who was so generous that it is remarked in the chronicles that he never refused any favour asked. He confirmed any grant he made by a record on golden plates. Up to this day the Portuguese preserve one of these plates for a gift to them by the said Ram Rajah of the city of Sao Thome. Owing to the liberality of this emperor his fame spread, and many men of different nations resorted to him and entered his service, principally foreigners. He gave them pay, and confided to them offices of profit. His empire was so extensive that it reached to the river Narbada, which divides the lands of Hindustan from those of the Dakhin, as I have already said. This was the northern frontier; that on the north-east was Jagarnate (Jagannath), on the coast of Gergelim (Ginjili).