Consider the following statements about foreign accounts of the Vijay…

Consider the following statements about foreign accounts of the Vijayanagara markets:

(A) Domingo Paes described Vijayanagara as the best-provided city in the world.
(B) Domingo Paes found rice, wheat, grains and pulses in its markets scarce and sold at high prices.
(C) Fernao Nuniz described meat as being sold in abundance in the marketplaces.
(D) Domingo Paes described partridges, hares, doves and quail as being sold in the market of Bisnaga.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → A and C only

(A) Domingo Paes described Vijayanagara as the best-provided city in the world. — Correct. Paes called Vijayanagara the best-provided city in the world.

(B) Domingo Paes found rice, wheat, grains and pulses in its markets scarce and sold at high prices. — Incorrect. Paes found these grains cheaply and abundantly available; scarce and costly reverses his words.

(C) Fernao Nuniz described meat as being sold in abundance in the marketplaces. — Correct. Nuniz wrote that meat was sold in abundance in the marketplaces.

(D) Domingo Paes described partridges, hares, doves and quail as being sold in the market of Bisnaga. — Incorrect. The list of meat sold in the market of Bisnaga comes from Fernao Nuniz, with Paes's name put in his place.

NCERT (2026-27): “6. Plotting Palaces, Temples and Bazaars …
Paes gives a vivid description of the bazaar: Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street … In this street live many merchants, and there you will find all sorts of rubies, and diamonds, and emeralds, and pearls, and seed-pearls, and cloths, and every other sort of thing there is on earth and that you may wish to buy. …”

“More generally, he described the city as being “the bestprovided city in the world” with the markets “stocked with provisions such as rice, wheat, grains, India corn and a certain amount of barley and beans, moong, pulses and horse-gram” all of which were cheaply and abundantly available. According to Fernao Nuniz, the Vijayanagara markets were “overflowing with abundance of fruits, grapes and oranges, limes, pomegranates, jackfruit and mangoes and all very cheap”. Meat too was sold in abundance in the marketplaces. Nuniz describes “mutton, pork, venison, partridges, hares, doves, quail and all kinds of birds, sparrows, rats and cats and lizards” as being sold in the market of Bisnaga (Vijayanagara).”