History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c33.s8.1

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In South India in the Saṅgam Age, trade and transport was by means of vehicles. Puram literature. (c 100 B.C - 100 A.D) speaks about the use of various vehicles by the salt merchants to transport their merchandise from one place to another. The work goes on to mention that women of the *Parambu Malai* region stood on mounds to count the number of salt vehicles passing through their village.