Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c5.s1.38

v1.c5.s1.38

In the early Ming period, envoys came from different parts of India bearing gifts that indicate the range of products that could have been traded as commodities between India and China. These gifts included certain herbal remedies for detoxification, giraffes, superior quality horses, gold, silver, glass implements, rhinoceros horn, peacocks, parrots, cambric, tula-cotton, icing sugar, frankincense, rosin, herbs, hemp vine, cutch, lac, vine rattan, ebony, sappan wood, pepper, the plant ardisia maculosa Mez, byssus thread, pepper, gems, coral, gardenia, sandalwood, tin, etc.