The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c6.s1.8

The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c6.s1.8

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c6.s1.8

³ Kauṭilya ii. 11 refers to *Pāṇḍyakavāṭakam* as a variety of pearl with which compare Varāhamihira’s *Pāṇḍyavāṭa* (Fleet, *ibid*). Again at the end of the same chapter Kauṭilya refers to *Mādhuram* as a variety of cotton fabric, thereby showing the antiquity of the cotton industry of Madura.

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit