A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.137

c14.137

Abdur Razzâk also visited the city during the reign of Deva Râya II., but about twenty years later than Conti. He was entrusted with an embassy from Persia, and set out on his mission on January 13, A.D. 1442. At the beginning of November that year he arrived at Calicut, where he resided till the beginning of April 1443. Being there he was summoned to Vijayanagar, travelled thither, and was in the great city from the end of April till the 5th December of the same year. The following passage explains why he left Calicut.