A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c14.44

c14.44

A Chola embassy of seventy-two merchants reached China in 1077 and received 81,800 strings of copper cash, that is, about as many dollars in return for the articles of tribute comprising glassware, camphor, brocades, rhinoceros horns, ivory, incense, rose water, putchuck, asafoetida, borax, cloves, etc. There was active trade with Śri Vijaya during this period, so much so that in 1090 its king sent an embassy to Kulottunga I to consult about the regulation of the affairs of the two vihāras his ancestors had erected at Negapatam.