A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t3.42

c21.s3.t3.42

And after some days and years had passed, Narsenaque, seeing the age of the king how young he was, determined to keep him in the city of Bisnaga with large guards to make safe his person, and gave him 20,000 cruzados of gold every year for his state and expenses, and himself to govern the kingdom, for it had been entrusted to him by the king himself so to do. After this had been done he told the king that he desired to go to Bisnaga to do certain things that would tend to the benefit of the kingdom, and the King, pleased at that, told him that so it should be, thinking that now he himself would be more of a master and not be so liable to be checked by him. And after he had departed and arrived at Bisnaga, Narsenaque sent the King 20,000 men for his guard, as he had arranged, and he sent as their captain a panarque, a man in whom he much confided (commanding him) that he should not allow the King to leave the city, and that he should carefully guard his person against treachery.