Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c43.s3.t13.38
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c43.s3.t13.38
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Megasthenes (fourth century BC) mentioned large pearls of Sri Lanka and *Taprobane*, a corruption of Tāmraparṇī, the river in the Tinnevelly region in the southernmost part of India. Pliny and the author of the *Periplus* (first century AD), and later, Fa-hien, the Chinese pilgrim (AD 399-414), described the pearl fisheries in South India and Sri Lanka. In *Raghuvamśa* (4.50), Kālidāsa wrote about the pearls from the marine estuary of the Tāmraparṇī:
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- Raghuvaṃśa — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit