A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t17.73

c21.s3.t17.73

Also Bajapanarque, who is captain of the country of Bodial,¹ which borders on Mamgalor² by the sea-coast. He is lord too of Guiana.³ In this country there is much pepper and sugar-cane and cloth (of flax)⁴ and much rice; but there is no wheat, nor other cloth, and it is a land of wax. It yields him three hundred thousand *pardaos* a year, and he serves with eight hundred horsemen and ten thousand foot and fifteen elephants. He pays the King ten thousand *pardaos*.