History of Bengali Language and Literature c5.10

c5.10

⁷⁹ On page 19 of this work, Mr. Havell writes :—" From the sea-ports of her Western and Eastern coasts, India sent streams of colonists, missioneries and craftsmen all over Southern Asia, Ceylon, Syam and far distant Cambodia. Through China and Japan, Indian art entered Japan about the middle of the sixth Century " The Eastern sea-ports, here referred to, were probably Tamluk, Chittagong and those on the Orissa Coast."