ABSTRACT
The authors describe the great and warlike kingdom of the Deccan. It is separated from the kingdom of Cambay along by Maymi or May, and from the kingdom of Goa by Kharepatan (Cara patanam), and from the country inland where the king of Narsinga is, and from the kingdom of Orissa by a narrow inlet, and on the side of Cambay upwards by the mountains which are between India and Delhi. There are twenty towns in the kingdom of the Deccan, the ones with the most inhabitants being Bidar, Bijapur, Cidador, Sholapur, Raichur, Sagar, Kulbarga, Koyer, Bayn. Principal inland towns. The former cabayo was a knight of great esteem, and they say that he took part in forty pitched battles and was defeated in thirty and victorious in ten. The kingdom of the Deccan is a land of chivalry. It must have about thirty thousand mounted men, besides countless foot soldiers.
