[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 Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires # The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires (Suma oriental) Survey of Asian trade from the Red Sea to Japan written at Malacca and Cochin by the apothecary Tomé Pires: Cambay, the Deccan, Goa, Vijayanagara, Malabar, Ceylon, Coromandel, Orissa and Bengal. - **Language:** Portuguese - **Date:** 1512–1515 CE - **Author:** [Tomé Pires](https://indike.org/pramana/person/pires) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.pires](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.pires) · Pramāṇa