Most of the Saraswat families left Goa with their family deities, risking life and limb.
Disgusted and completely out of hope and patience, Sameer decides to leave Goa forever.
On account of the hostile religious policies pursued by the Portuguese rulers around 1560, the devotees left Goa.
On February 7, 1513, he left Goa with 1,700 Portuguese and 1,000 Indian men in 24 ships.
Saraswat families in large numbers, preferred to leave Goa with their family deities.
He left Goa on 15 April 1549, stopped at Malacca and visited Canton.
At the age of 18, he left Goa and traveled to Lisbon, where he studied history and philosophy at the local university.
Those who refused to comply with the rules laid down by the Inquisition were forced to leave Goa and to settle outside the Portuguese dominion.
The others had left Goa during the recent siege.
Albuquerque agreed and he left Goa.