Sources
edithttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Heliodoro_da_Cunha_Rivara
http://books.google.com.bh/books?id=vnKEgXtNHt0C&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=true
http://books.google.com/books?id=m6qpf9fPVg4C&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=true
http://www.goacom.com/culture/history/pinto.html
Cunha Rivara's last years in Goa were not happy ones but his compensation in loneliness were books and the study of history and its records.
Joaquim Heliodoró da Cunha Rivara whose essay on Konkani O Ensaio Historico da Lingua Concani provides considerable information on the language during the first three hundred years of Portuguese rule in Goa
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20244966/J-H-Cunha-Rivara-and-Native-Goan-Elites