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Annexure I
The imports and exports to and from India (source: Periplus) Indo-Scythia: BARBARICUM (at mouth of Indus River) (Imports): Thin clothing (in large quantity, some spurious); Figured linens; Topaz; Coral; Storax;
Frankincense; Vessels of glass; Silver and gold plate; Wine (a little). (Exports): Costus; Bdellium; Lycium; Nard; Turquoise; Lapis lazuli; Seric skins; Cotton cloth;
Silk yarn; Indigo. India (the kingdom of Nambanus) BARYAGAZA (Imports): Wine (Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian); Copper; Tin; Lead; Corel; Topaz;
Thin clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds; Bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; Storax; Sweet clover; Flint glass; Realgar; Antimony; Gold and silver coin (yielding a profit on the exchange); Ointments (not costly, a little); Presents for the King (costly vessels of silver, singing boys, beautiful maidens for the harem, fine wines, thin clothing of the finest
weaves, the choicest ointments). (Exports): Spikenard (coming through Scythia, also through Poclais, from Caspapyra, Paropanisus
and Cabolitis); Costus; Bdellium; Ivory; Agate and carnelian (onyx and murrhinie); Lycium; Cotton cloth of all kinds (muslins and ordinary); Silk cloth; Mallow-cloth; Yarn; Long
pepper; Other things coming from the various ports. India (Chera and Pandya kingdoms) MUZIRIS, NELCYNDA AND BACARE: (to which large ships come for pepper and malabathrum). (Imports): Coin (in great quantity); Topaz; Thin clothing, not much; Figured linens; Antimony;
Corel; Crude glass; Copper; Tin; Lead; Wine (not much, but as much as at Barygaza);
Realgar; Orpiment; Wheat (for the sailors, the country not producing it). (Exports): Pepper (produced in Cottonara); Fine pearls in great quantity; Ivory; Silk cloth; Spikenard
from the Ganges; Malabathrum from the interior; Transparent stones of all kings;
Diamonds; Sapphires; Tortoise-shell (from Chryse and from near-by islands). India (Chola kingdom) ARGARU (inland) (Exports): Pearls; Muslins (named from the place).
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