[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Crónica dos reis de Bisnaga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz) › [The Narrative of Domingos Paes and the Chronicle of Fernao Nuniz (Sewell, A Forgotten Empire)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell) › 1.1.7 # The chronicles of Paes and Nuniz (Vijayanagara) 1.1.7 The Narrative of Domingos Paes and the Chronicle of Fernão Nuniz (Sewell, A Forgotten Empire) 1.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [1.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.1.7) It has three entrance gates, which gates are very large and beautiful, and the entrance from one of these sides, being towards the east and facing the door of the pagoda, has some structures like verandahs, small and low, where sit some JOGIS;\[385\] and inside this enclosure, which has other little pagodas of a reddish colour, there is a stone like the mast of a ship, with its pedestal four-sided, and from thence to the top eight-sided, standing in the open air. I was not astonished at it, because I have seen the needle of St. Peters at Rome, which is as high, or more.\[386\] - [Previous: 1.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.1.6) - [Next: 1.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.2.1) - [Up: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.1.1.7) · Pramāṇa