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India (the kingdom of Nambanus).
Barygaza.
( 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
OtheF things coming from the various ports.
India ( Chera and Pandya kingdoms). Muziris, Nelcynda and Bacare; (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 Cottorara 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 (Chbla kingdom)
Argaru (inland)
( Exports )
Pearls
Muslins (named from the place) India (East Coast).
Camara, Poduca 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.
