Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.15

c8.s1.15

49. There are imported into this market-town, wine, Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian ; copper, tin and lead ; coral and topaz ; thin clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds ; bright-coloured girdles a cubit wide ; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on which there is a profit when exchanged for the money of the country ; and ointment, but not very costly and not much. And for the king there are brought into those places very costly vessels of silver, singing boys, beautiful maidens for the harem, fine wines, thin clothing of the finest weaves, and the choicest ointment. There are exported from these places spikenard, costus, bdellium, ivory, agate and carnelian, lycium, cotton cloth of all kinds, silk cloth, mallow cloth, yarn, long pepper and such other things as are brought here from the various market-towns. Those bound for this market-town from Egypt make the voyage favourably about the month of July, that is Epiphi.