[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) › 22.2 # The chronicles of Paes and Nuniz (Vijayanagara) 22.2 The Narrative of Domingos Paes and the Chronicle of Fernão Nuniz (Sewell, A Forgotten Empire) 22.2 - **Language:** English ### [22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22.2) He has five hundred wives and as many less or more as he wants, with whom he sleeps; and all of these burn themselves at his death. When he journeys to any place he takes twenty-five or thirty of his most favourite wives, who go with him, each one in her palanqueen with poles. The palanqueen of the principal wife is an covered with scarlet cloth tasselled with large and heavy work in seed-pearls and pearls, and the pole itself is ornamented with gold. The palanqueens of the other wives are ornamented only with silver, but another palanqueen, which is for his own person, always goes on the right side, and is in the same way decorated with gold. For a son or a daughter, if such an one goes with him, he takes another bedstead of ivory inlaid with gold; and when he takes the field, wherever he pitches his camp there they make for him houses of stone and clay, for he does not stay in a tent, and he always has these decorated with cloths.\[597\] - [Previous: 22.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22.1) - [Next: 22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22.3) - [Up: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.paes-nuniz~en-sewell.22.2) · Pramāṇa