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(3:8\ჯტ পরিশিষ্ট । Duarte Barbosa, who visited the kingdom of Vijayanagar between 1514 and who was present at the great city describes it thus :-'It is very populous-the King has in this place very large and handsome palaces with numerous courts-there are also in this city many other palaces of great lords . . . . and the streets and squares are very wide-they are constantly filled with an innumerable crowd of all nations and creeds-there is an infinite trade in this city . . . . The King keeps at all times goo elephants, and more than 20,000 horse The King has more than IOOOOO men-both horse and foot to whome he gives pay.' Nuniz says that the 'King has continually-in the capital-50,OOO paid soldiers, amongst whom are 6,OOO spearmen and shieldbearers and 3OOo men to look after the elephants in the stables. He has I,6OO grooms who attend to his horses and has also 3OO horse trainers, and 2,OOO artifficers. . . . . There are always at the Court where the King is 2d,ooo litters and palanquins." Cesar Frederic, the medieval traveller, says "that he had seen many courts, but never anything to compare with it.” In Ferishta's 'Mahomedan Power in Southern India” Vol. III., P. 358, he significantly observes “the ancestors of Krishna Deva Raya had possessed this kingdoom for 7do years. During this period the treasure they accumulated was so grert as to equal those of all the Kings of the eart;” Castanheda visited India just at the close of Krishna Dęva Raya's reign (about I 529), and states “ that the Infantry of Vijayanagara were countless, . . . . . that