"are mentioned i in Yajnayalkya’s Code, B. C. 300. 
_ centres of trade on the Western Coast were Sopara, Sanjan, 
Chaul eas acy and Thana, where markets appear to have 
r Saino! & to the Indian Coast, In Pliny’s time the principal 
xxports from India were sesamum, oil, sugar, spices, rice, nard, 
i pepper, lac and indigo, and the oe frankincense, 
r caaittrys and e the 6th ‘sdubiry it had almost entirely been. 
sferred d to the Hast African ports. Thana and its ports were: 
thto the 13thcentury,aswelearn 
accounts es El Biruni, Thu Haukal and other Arabian = 
lu ag and describe its use as an incense and a8 a a local - 
sion to indolent swellings to promote suppuration. — The 
r writers dese veral kinds of Oliban um—Ist, 
coated with the exudation (Di : 
aici *, Dukak Kundur, or dust of pees 
