The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.43

v1.c10.43

The result of this legation of Frey Luiz was an Embassy from Vijayanagara that reached Goa in the following year 1511. Both the *Commentarios* and Faria y Sousa, that give this information, do not mention the name of the ambassador nor the nature of his business with the Viceroy. But we are sure that this was the origin of the official friendship between the two powers. In the anonymous letter mentioned above it is stated that "the King of Narsinga (Vijayanagara) has sent ambassadors in order to establish a perpetual friendship with the King of Portugal; on the other hand, this King has done the same, for he also wished to establish this alliance"⁶. Moreover Krishna Deva Raya proposed, no doubt, through his ambassador to the Viceroy, his desire of getting horses from Arabia and Ormuz, of which he was in much need for his campaigns against the Muhammadans¹. As a matter of fact the second Ambassador sent by Albuquerque to Vijayanagara, Gaspar Chanoca by name, was charged to inform Krishna Raya that the Viceroy would willingly send him all the horses available at Goa, rather than to the Sultan of Bijapur².