PAES (Pais), Domingo. 14?? — 15??. Portuguese Merchant in India. In a group of merchants from Goa he went to Vijayanagara c. 1520 and then wrote his account, characterized by reliable and exact observations and including important information about the Hindu state. The manuscript came to Portugal and was used by Barros, but then forgotten.
Publications: Edited together with the account of F. Nuniz by D. Lopes: Chronica dos Reis de Bisnaga. 89+123 p. Lisbon 1897; English by Sewell in his Forgotten Empire. L. 1900, 235-290.
Sources: Oaten 1909, 68f.; Wikipedia.
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