The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s3.34

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The country profited from a flourishing foreign trade. Ships from the West sailed down the Red Sea to Broach and the Malabar coast, which supplied the two great inland marts of Paithan and Tagara, and probably visited the two harbours of Sopārā and Kalyān. The latter port was raised to the rank of a regular mart in the time of the elder Sarganes (probably Sātakarni, the third ruler of the dynasty); but its trade was subsequently restricted to narrow limits by Sandanes, who may have been a Saka official. The Saka Satraps certainly endeavoured to divert the trade from Broach direct through their own dominions in the northern Deccan. Other seaports supplying the Āndhra dominions were Semulla (Chaul), Mandagora (? Mandangad to the south of Bānkot), Palaipatmai, Melizeigara (? Jaygad or Janjira) and Buzantion.