<P> Trade with Barigaza, under the control of the Indo - Scythian Western Satrap Nahapana ("Nambanus"), was especially flourishing: </P> <P> There are imported into this market - town (Barigaza), wine, Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian; copper, tin, and lead; coral and topaz; thin clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds; bright - colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on which there is a profit when exchanged for the money of the country; and ointment, but not very costly and not much . And for the King there are brought into those places very costly vessels of silver, singing boys, beautiful maidens for the harem, fine wines, thin clothing of the finest weaves, and the choicest ointments . There are exported from these places spikenard, costus, bdellium, ivory, agate and carnelian, lycium, cotton cloth of all kinds, silk cloth, mallow cloth, yarn, long pepper and such other things as are brought here from the various market - towns . Those bound for this market - town from Egypt make the voyage favorably about the month of July, that is Epiphi . </P> <P> Muziris is a lost port city on the south - western coast of India which was a major center of trade in the ancient Tamil land between the Chera kingdom and the Roman Empire . Its location is generally identified with modern - day Cranganore (central Kerala). Large hoards of coins and innumerable shards of amphorae found at the town of Pattanam (near Cranganore) have elicited recent archeological interest in finding a probable location of this port city . </P> <P> According to the Periplus, numerous Greek seamen managed an intense trade with Muziris: </P>

Major cities on the indian ocean trade route