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19. See Kennedy *JRAS.* 1898 pp. 248-87 for a full discussion of this subject. Prof. Jules Bloch in his paper "Nom du Riz" (*Etudes Asiatiques* Vol. I, pp. 37-47) denies that the Greek term for rice is derived from Tam. *Ariśi*; and he holds that there is not much evidence, philological or other, in proof of the part of South India in this trade, which might after all have been confined, at any rate until a very late stage, to Northern India and to the land routes. L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar *IA.* Vol. lix pp. 178 ff., after a careful examination of Bloch's position on the etymology of the Gk. *Oruzon*, comes to the conclusion: '*Varigi* or *Varizi* may be postulated for Dravidian from which, with characteristic modifications, the Greeks could have borrowed that word'. Kennedy's conclusion that maritime trade between South India and the West dates from the sixth or even the seventh century B.C. still seems good.