Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.28

c8.s1.28

60. Among the market towns of these countries, and the harbours where ships put in from Damirica and from the north, the most important are, in order as they lie, first Camara (probably Kāverī-pattana near modern Karikal), then Poduca (near modern Pondicheri), then Sopatma (near modern Madras); in which there are ships of the country coasting along the shore as far as Damirica; and other very large vessels made of single logs bound together, called sangara (jaṅgār, double canoe); but those which make the voyage to Chryse and to the Ganges are called colandia (kulāntara, ‘foreign shore’), and are very large. There are imported into these places everything made in Damirica, and the greatest part of what is brought at any time from Egypt, here, together with most kinds of all the things that are brought from Damirica and of those that are carried through Paralia.