War in Ancient India c10.125
War in Ancient India c10.125
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c10.125
Some of the places where ships were built in South India were Calicut, Cochin, besides the Maldive Islands. Regarding the size of the Indian ships we have conflicting accounts, beginning with those of the Arab travellers in the ninth and tenth centuries and ending with Vasco da Gama in the sixteenth century. Sulaiman remarks that the people of the Maldives "built ships and houses and executed all other works with a consummate art".⁸⁰