A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.127

c14.127

The first of these festivals may be the Kanarese New Year's Day, which Domingo Paes in his chronicle asserts to have fallen, during his visit to Vijayanagar, on October 12—"*festas em que todos vestem panos novos e ricos e galantes, e cada hũa como o têm, e dão todos os capitães panos a toda sua gente de muytas cores e galantes.*"¹ The second should be the *Dipāvali* festival, which occurs about the month of October, when lamps are lighted by all the householders, and the temples are illuminated. The description of the third answers to the nine-days' festival, called the *Mahânavamî*, at Vijayanagar, which, during the visit of Paes, took place on September 12. The other feast of three days' duration answers to the Holi festival.