Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

Which foreign traveller referred to Vijayanagar as BISNAGA?

Options:

Fernao Nuniz

Abdur Razzaq

Nicolo de Conti

Megasthenes

Correct Answer:

Fernao Nuniz

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1 - Fernao Nuniz

Fernao Nuniz referred to Vijayanagar as BISNAGA.

More generally, Paes described the city as being “the best provided 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).