The Classical Accounts of India c13.73

c13.73

51. Among the marts in this South Country there are two of more particular importance—Paethana, which lies south from Barygaza, a distance of twenty days, and Tagara, ten days east of Paethana, the greatest city³⁸ in the country. Their commodities are carried down on wagons to Barygaza along roads of extreme difficulty,—that is, from Paithana a great quantity of onyx-stone and from Tagara ordinary cottons in abundance, many sorts of muslins, mallow coloured cottons, and other articles of local production brought into it from the parts along the coast. The length of the entire voyage as far as Limyrike is 700 stadia, and to reach Aigialus³⁹ you must sail very many stadia further.