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To next page Malayagiri; Jain commentator (12th cent) ------------------------------------------------ Taken from; Gode, PK (1949a) - History of ambergris in India - Between about AD 700 and 1900, Chymia Vol 2, 51-56; He mentions a perfume or aromatic ingredient of the name ambara along with aguru (aloe-wood or agallochum) karpura (camphor) etc� burnt as incense. (Ambara; Arab word for Ambergris. In Sanskriet it means sky. This text gives evidence that the Arabs were importing Ambergris from Arabia and East Africa + Aloes from Socotra into India) |
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