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A Thread on "Ancient Industries Of Poompuhar"

#Puhar (also known as #Poompuhar), #பூம்புகார் is a town in #Nagapattinam district in #TamilNadu. It was once a flourishing ancient port city known as #Kaveripoompattinam, which for a while served as the capital of the Early Cholas! Image
It is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea!

#Kaveripoompattinam was a beautiful maritime city of the #Sangam age, situated at the confluence of the river #Kaveri with the Bay of Bengal! Image
It served as the centre of Political, Cultural and Commercial activities of the Ancient Tamils!

There were references of its flourishing trade, planned layout, beautiful building and harbour area from the early Tamil works such as #Pattinappalai #Manimekalai & #Silappathikaram!
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A Thread on "Trade Relations between Tamil Nadu and South East Asia as Gleaned from Inscriptions...!"

The Commercial and Cultural contacts between Tamil Nadu and South East Asian Countries seem to have existed even from the beginning of the Christian era!
#Sangam Literatures say that the import & export of articles between these countries had happened in great vigour through the ports located on the Coromandal coast, viz #Kollam, #Eyilpattinam, #Kaviripumpattinam, #Tondi, #Marungurpattinam (#Alagankulam), #Korkai and #Kanyakumari!
The author of the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea describes the ports of the Coromandal coast as follows. “Among the market-towns of these countries and harbour where the ships put in from Damirica and from the north, the most important are, in order as they lie, first Camara...1/2
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