The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.17
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.17
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c35.s2.17
We hear of a mission sent by ‘King Pandion’ to Augustus Caesar in 20 B. C.;² and both the author of the *Periplus of the Erythraean Sea* (*c.* A. D. 80) and Ptolemy the geographer (*c.* A. D. 140) were well informed concerning the names and positions of the marts and ports of the Pāndya country. Caracalla’s massacre at Alexandria in A. D. 215 checked, or perhaps put an end to, the direct Roman trade between Southern India and Egypt,³ so that for long ages the history of the Pāndya realm is hidden from our eyes.