Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.3

c8.s1.3

39. The ships lie at anchor at Barbaricum, but all their cargoes are carried up to the metropolis by the river, to the king. There are imported into this market a great deal of thin clothing, and a little spurious; figured linens, topaz, coral, storax, frankincense, vessels of glass, silver and gold plate, and a little wine. On the other hand there are exported costus, bdellium, lycium, nard, turquoise, lapis lazuli, Seric skins, cotton cloth, silk yarn and indigo. And sailors set out thither with the Indian Etesian winds, about the month of July, that is Epiphi : it is more dangerous then; but through these winds the voyage is more direct, and sooner completed.