[144] -- The India Office copy adds here: "He was exceedingly young." If so, the personage whom the ambassador interviewed could hardly have been Deva Raya II., who at this period (1443) had been on the throne for twenty-four years. [145] -- MAHANADI (Hakluyt), MAHANAWI (Elliot). There can be little doubt as to the meaning. [146] -- The actual moment of the new moon corresponding to the beginning of the month of Karttika in Hindu reckoning was 7.40 A.M. on the morning of October 23, and the first Hindu day (TITHI) of Karttika began at 5 A.M. on October 24. The Muhammadan month begins with the heliacal rising of the moon, and this may have taken place on the 24th or 25th evening. At any rate, Razzak could hardly have called a festival that took place a whole month earlier a festival which took place "during three days in the month Rajab." Hence I think that he must have been present at the New Year festivities in Karttika, not at the Mahanavami in Asvina, a month previous. Note Paes' description of the festivals at which he was present. He states that the nine days' MAHANAVAMI took place on September 12, when he was at Vijayanagar, and the details correspond to the year A.D. 1520. September 12, 1520, was the first day of the month Asvina. The New Year's festival that year took place on October 12, which corresponded to the first day of Karttika, each of these being the day following the NEW moon, not the full moon. [147] -- About seven yards or twenty-one feet. [148] -- Genealogical table in EPIGRAPHIA INDICA, iii. 36. [149] -- Dr. Hultzsch (EPIG. IND., iii. 36, and note; IND. ANT., xxi. 321). The last is on a temple at Little Conjeeveram and is dated in Saka 1387 expired, year Parthiva. [150] -- Saka 1392 expired, year Vikriti, on the same temple (IND. ANT., xxi. 321 -- 322). [151] -- Firishtah says that he reigned twenty-three years nine months and twenty days, which gives this date. The BURHAN-I MAASIR fixes his decease at the end of Junmada'l Awwal A.H. 862, which answers to April A.D. 1458. Major King states that another authority gives the date as four years later (IND. ANT., Sept. 1899, p. 242, note). [152] -- 28th Zil-kada A.H. 865. [153] -- 13th Zil-kada A.H. 867. [154] -- Dec. I. viii. c. 10. [155] -- Below, p. 305. [156] -- IND. ANT., November 1899, p. 286, note. [157] -- Vijayanagar. [158] -- Masulipatam. [159] -- Scott's translation has "Ghondpore" (i. 166); Briggs (ii. 500) says "Condapilly." [160] -- This evidently means Kanchi or Conjeeveram; but the story is exceedingly improbable. The distance was 250 miles, and the way lay through the heart of a hostile country. [161] -- Ramazan A.H. 885. [162] -- 11th Muharram, A.H. 886. [163] -- Scott's translation, i. 167. [164] -- It is possible that one of these towns was Goa, which was taken in 1469. [165] -- Meaning evidently palanquins. [166] -- "Chenudar" and "Binedar" appear to be variations of the name Vijayanagar, called "Bichenegher" farther on.