[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [European vernaculars](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu) › [Early sixteenth-century accounts (after 1500)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later) › The Book of Duarte Barbosa # The Book of Duarte Barbosa (Livro de Duarte Barbosa) Description of the coasts of the Indian Ocean by Duarte Barbosa, clerk at Cannanore and Cochin: Gujarat, the Deccan, Goa, Vijayanagara, Malabar castes (brahmins, Nāyars, Tiyyars), Coromandel, Bengal and Ceylon. - **Language:** Portuguese - **Date:** 1516 CE - **Author:** [Duarte Barbosa](https://indike.org/pramana/person/barbosa) - **Extent:** 156,231 words - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Translations (2) - [The Book of Duarte Barbosa](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.barbosa~en-dames) — English - [A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.barbosa~en-stanley) — English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.barbosa](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.barbosa) · Pramāṇa