[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) › c5.78 # The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.78 The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.78 - **Language:** English ### [c5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.78) 41 An embassy from Ceylon sent to the Emperor Claudius between A.D. 41 and 54. Pliny relates of this embassy that a freedman of Annius Plocamus, being driven into Hippuros, a port of Ceylon, was detained and befriended by the king, who, hearing from him about Rome, sent thither Rachias and three other ambassadors, from whom Pliny obtained the information about Ceylon embodied in his \*Natural History\*. The exact date of the embassy cannot be determined. It left Ceylon probably in the reign of Chandramukhaśiva (A.D. 44–52), and apparently reached Rome after the publication of Pomponius Mela's geography, between A.D. 43 and 47. Priaulx suggests its having been sent by the Singhalese Tamils rather than by the Singhalese proper.—Priaulx, \*Travels of Apollonius of Tyana\*, 91. - [Previous: c5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.77) - [Next: c5.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.79) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.78) · Pramāṇa