Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India c8.76

c8.76

Bengal, Pauṇḍra (northern Bengal) and Suvarṇakuḍyā were famous for *dakūla* and Kāśī and Pauṇḍra for linen. Magadha, Pauṇḍra, and Suvarṇabhūmi supplied a kind of wild silk textile. The chief centres of the cotton goods were Mathurā, Kāśī, Aparānta (Konkan), Kalinga (Orissa), Bengal, Vaṁśa (Kauśāmbi) and Māhishmatī (Mahesar near Khandwa).⁴²