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An Obscure Passage from the Periplus: KoΛanΔioΦΩnta Ta MeΓiΣta1

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In the study of the early history of South East Asia the nature of the shipping which operated between India and the regions to the east has been the subject of much discussion. Sources for this study are rare enough and the fact that one of them, Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, § 60, is either corrupt, as Müller believed, or contains a difficult hapax legomenon, has proved something of a stumbling block. The text of the Periplus rests upon a single MS (Heidelberg: Cod. Palatinus Gr. 398 saec. X ineuntis) of which there is a fourteenth or fifteenth century copy in the British Museum (Add. Mss. 19391)

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page 345 note 1 This paper is based in part on my communication to the 23rd International Congress of Orientalists, Cambridge, 1954. I have to thank my colleague, Dr. A.C. Graham, for his assistance in discussion of the Chinese texts.

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page 348 note 1 Taisho Tripiṭaka, No. 2128, ch. 61.

page 348 note 2 The draught as printed is manifestly absurd. Pelliot proposed, with certain reservations, reading six or seven feet, for Pelliot, p. 258, n. 4.

page 348 note 3 Pelliot, p. 258, n. 2.

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page 349 note 2 I am indebted to my colleague, Mr. H.S. Shorto, for the Mon and Car-Nicobarese terms. Attempts have been made to associate them with Dravidian kappal, but Mr. Shorto informs me that these are misconceived. I am grateful to him for allowing me to anticipate his publication on this point.

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page 349 note 4 Brereton: loc. cit., p. cxviii.

page 349 note 5 Recorded by Cowie: loc. cit., p. clix. I hope to return to a detailed study of these and other words in connexion with a study of S.E. Asian maritime cultures.

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