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India (Chéra and Pandya kingdoms). Muziris, NELCYNDA AND BACARE;

India (the kingdom of Nambanus).

BaryYGAZA.

(Imports)

Wine: Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian

Copper

Tin

Lead

Coral

Topaz

Thin clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds

Bright-colored girdles a cubit wide

Storax

Sweet clover

Flint glass

Realgar

Antimony

Gold and silver coin (yielding a profit on the exchange)

Ointments, not costly, a little

Presents for the King: Costly vessels of silver, singing boys, beautiful maidens for the harem, fine wines, thin clothing of the finest weaves, the choicest ointments.

(Exports)

Spikenard (coming through Scythia, also through Po- clais, from Caspapyra, Pa- ropanisus and Cabolitis)

Costus

Bdellium

Ivory

Agate and carnelian (onyx and murrhine )

Lycium

Cotton cloth of all kinds (mus- lins and ordinary )

Silk cloth

Mallow-cloth

Yam

Long pepper

Other things coming from the various ports.

(to which large ships come for pepper and malabathrum ). (Imports )

Coin, in great quantity

Topaz

Thin clothing, not much

Figured linens

Antimony

Coral

Crude glass

Copper

Tin

Lead

Wine, not much, but as much as at Barygaza

Realgar

Orpiment

Wheat (for the sailors, the country not producing it).

( Exports )

Pepper, produced in Cottonara

Fine pearls in great quantity

Ivory

Silk cloth

Spikenard from the Ganges

Malabathrum from the interior

Transparent stones of all kinds

Diamonds

Sapphires

Tortoise-shell, from Chryse and from near-by islands

India (Chola kingdom ) ARGaRU (inland)

( Exports)

Pearls Muslins (named from the place)

India (East Coast ). Camara, Popuca aNd SoPATMA

(where ships come from the west coast, also from the Gan- ges and Chryse).

(Imports )

Everything made in Damirica and the neighboring coun- tries and most of what comes from Egypt.