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TILAKAMANJARI OF DHANAPALA
refers to the employment of horses, cow-elephants and elephants meant as vehicles suited to cover a distance. They, therefore, comprised the trafficvehicles' refers to the ships meant for traffic through sea
2 implies the trade with foreign countries such
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and maritime trade.
as China from where the silk cloth was imported.
सुवर्णद्वीपे मणिपुराभिधाननगरनिवासी प्रवीणः किमपि लोकयात्रायां सांयात्रिकवणिग् वैश्रवणो नाम 3
refers to Vaisravana, the maritime trader resident of Manipura in Suvarnadvipa (Sumātrā) taking to maritime trade with Simhala and India etc. निजभुजार्जितं पूर्वपुरुषोपार्जितं च प्राज्यमर्थम् ' refers to the money earned by one's own sweat of the brow and the one inherited through the ancestors.
Taraka the son of Vaisravana has been deemed inheriting the property of his sire in youth (क्रमागतमशेषपुरुषार्थसंपतिपात्रमभिनवमधिरुह्य यौवनम् ) and boarding a ship () and going to Rangaśālā (the capital of Simhalas) followed by the maritime traders and many other associates travelling towards the other islands and carrying enormous hoards of articles of trade. (गृहीतप्रचुरसारभाण्डैर्भूरिशः कृतद्वीपान्तरयात्रैः सहकारिभिरनेकैः सांयात्रिकैरनुगम्यमानः इमामेव नगरौं रंगशालामागच्छत्) ऽ
कर्णधाराणां कर्म' refers to the profession of navigators.
(प्रकृष्टजांगुलिक इव ) ' refers to a physician treating the cases of poisoning caused by snake bites etc.
The boats, the ships meant to steer the way clear through the ocean for maritime trade were required to be equipped with ropes and other accessory materials, the edibles required to serve the provender for the voyage-period, the whole stock of water carrying vessels filled with sweet (the water of the occan being saline), the inexhaustible store of fuel meant to propel the vessel through the water."
1. TM. Vol. II p. 291
2. Ibid. Vol. II p. 272.
3. Ibid. Vol. II pp 274.
4. Ibid. Vol. p. 275. 5. Ibid.
6. Ibid. Vol. II p. 279.
7. Ibid. Vol. II p. 280.
8. कृतानि सर्वाण्यपि सुसूत्राणि यानपात्राणि, प्रगुणिताः समाहृतसमग्रोपकरणा: पोताः पुंजितं तेष्वतिप्राज्यमशनं, आपूरितानि स्वादुना खलिलेन कृत्स्नान्युदकपात्राणि समारोपितमप्रमाण भिन्घनम् । – Ibid.
