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INDIAN SHIPPING

country from the base of the tableland to the Palar and Pennar Rivers. . . . They are stated to have been engaged in trade, and to have owned ships and carried on a considerable commerce by sea."[1]

  1. Sir Walter Elliot in the Numismata Orientalia, vol. iii., Part ii., pp. 36, 37. (Coins of Southern India.)

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