REMARKS ON THE CITY OF TACARA. 36*9 



REMARKS 



ON THE 



CITY OF TAGARA. 



By Lieut. FRANCIS WILFORD. 



THEexpedition of Alexander having rmdethe Greeks 

 acquainted with the riches of India, they foon dif- 

 covered the way by fea into that country; and, having 

 entered into a commercial correfpondence with the 

 natives, they found it fo beneficial, that they attempted 

 a trade hither. 



Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, in order to 

 render the means eafy to merchants, lent one Dionyfius 

 into the fouthern parts of India, to inquire into the na- 

 ture of that country, its produce and manufactures. 



It was then Tagara began to be known to the Greeks, 

 about 2050 years ago. 



Arrian, in his Periplus Maris Erythrcei, fays it was a 

 large city, and that the produce of the country, at that 

 early period, confifted chiefly of coarfe Dungarees^ 

 (Othonium vulgare,) of which vaft quantities were ex- 

 ported ; muflins of all forts, (Sindones omnis generis;) 

 and a kind of cotton fluff, dyed of a whitifh purple, 

 and very much of the colour of the flowers of mallows, 

 whence called Molochyna. 



All kinds of mercantile goods throughout the Deccan 

 were brought to Tagara, and from thence conveved 

 on carts to Baroach, (Barygaza.) 



Arrian 



