Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.36

c8.s1.36

⁵ On Indian trade with Africa, Section 14 says, “The voyage to all these far-side market towns (of Eastern Africa) are made from Egypt about the month of July, that is Epiphi. And ships are also customarily fitted out from the places across the sea, from Ariaca and Barygaza, bringing to those far-side market towns the products of their own places: wheat, rice, clarified butter, sesame oil, cotton cloth—the monache and the sagmatogene—and girdles, and honey from the reed (ikṣu), called sacchari (śarkarā). Some make the voyage especially to these market towns, and others exchange their cargoes while sailing along the coast.”