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Dvārakā–Kamboja route, the Glossary

The Dvārakā–Kamboja route is an ancient land trade route that was an important branch of the Silk Road during antiquity and the early medieval era.^[1]

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Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Achaemenid Empire are history of South Asia.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Almond

The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.

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Anarta

Anarta (आनर्त) was an ancient Indian region which corresponded to the present-day North Saurashtra to North Gujarat regions in Gujarat state of India. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Anarta are history of Gujarat.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient history

Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anuradhapura

Anuradhapura (translit; translit) is a major city located in the north central plain of Sri Lanka.

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Apadāna

The Apadāna is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Aravalli Range

The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.

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Arthashastra

The Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy.

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Asafoetida

Asafoetida (also spelled asafetida) is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, perennial herbs of the carrot family.

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Bactria

Bactria (Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Bactria are history of South Asia.

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Badakhshan

Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.

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Bagram

Bagram (Pashto/بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul.

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Bamyan

Bamyan (بامیان), also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan.

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Barbarikon

Barbarikon (Βαρβαρικόν) was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, important in the ancient era of the Indian subcontinent in Indian Ocean trade.

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Bṛhat Saṃhitā

Bṛhat-saṃhitā is a 6th-century Sanskrit-language encyclopedia compiled by Varāhamihira in present-day Ujjain, India.

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Bharuch

Bharuch, formerly known as Bharutkutccha, is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India.

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Blanket

A blanket is a swath of soft cloth large enough either to cover or to enfold most of the user's body and thick enough to keep the body warm by trapping radiant body heat that otherwise would be lost through conduction.

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Buddha in art

Much Buddhist art uses depictions of the historical Buddha, Gautama Buddha, which are known as in Sanskrit and Pali.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Camel train

A camel train, caravan, or camel string is a series of camels carrying passengers and goods on a regular or semi-regular service between points. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and camel train are trade routes.

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Chanakya

Chanakya (ISO:,; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and politician.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chittorgarh

Chittorgarh (also Chitror or Chittor or Chittaurgarh) is a major city in the state of Rajasthan in western India.

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Dhammapāla

Dhammapāla was the name of two or more great Theravada Buddhist commentators.

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Dvārakā

Dvārakā, also known as Dvāravatī (Sanskrit द्वारका "the gated ", possibly meaning having many gates, or alternatively having one or several very grand gates), is a sacred historic city in the sacred literature of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Dvārakā are history of Gujarat.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Emerald

Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.

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Emperor

The word emperor (from imperator, via empereor) can mean the male ruler of an empire.

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Engraved gem

An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Gandhara

Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan.

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Geography (Ptolemy)

The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Hastinapur

Hastinapur is a city in the Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush is an mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.

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History of Cambodia

The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization.

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History of Kerala

The term Keralam was first epigraphically recorded as Cheras (Keralaputra) in a 3rd-century BCE rock inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka of Magadha.

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History of Myanmar

The history of Myanmar (also known as Burma; မြန်မာ့သမိုင်း) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 13,000 years ago to the present day.

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History of Sri Lanka

The history of Sri Lanka is unique because its relevance and richness extend beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indraprastha

Indraprastha (lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra") is mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jetavanaramaya

The Jetavanarama stupa or Jetavanaramaya (jētavanārāmaya) is a stupa, or Buddhist reliquary monument, located in the ruins of Jetavana monastery in the UNESCO world heritage city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kalyan

Kalyan (Pronunciation: kəljaːɳ) is a city on the banks of Ulhas River in Thane district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division.

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Kamboi

Kamboi is a town located in Chanasma taluka, in Patan district, in the modern Indian state of Gujarat.

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Kambojas

The Kambojas were a southeastern Iranian people who inhabited the northeastern most part of the territory populated by Iranian tribes, which bordered the Indian lands.

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Kathiawar

Kathiawar is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about bordering the Arabian Sea.

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Kubera

Kubera (कुबेर) also known as Kuvera, Kuber and Kuberan, is the god of wealth, and the god-king of the semi-divine yakshas in Hinduism.

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Lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Maitraka dynasty

The Maitraka dynasty ruled western India from approximately 475 to approximately 776 CE from their capital at Vallabhi. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Maitraka dynasty are history of Gujarat.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Muziris

Muchiri, commonly anglicized as Muziris (Μουζιρίς, Old Malayalam: Muciri or Muciripattanam possibly identical with the medieval Muyirikode) was an ancient harbour and an urban centre on the Malabar Coast.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nallasopara

Nallasopara or Nala Sopara (pronunciation: naːla sopaɾa) formerly known as Sopara or Supara, is a town within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

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Narmada River

The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pali

Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.

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Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.

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Pataliputra

Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Περίπλους τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς Θαλάσσης, Períplous tē̂s Erythrâs Thalássēs), also known by its Latin name as the, is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along the coast of the Red Sea and others along the Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, including the modern-day Sindh region of Pakistan and southwestern regions of India.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Petavatthu

The Petavatthu is a Theravada Buddhist scripture, included in the Minor Collection (Khuddaka Nikaya) of the Pali Canon's Sutta Pitaka.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

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Pony

A pony is a type of small horse (Equus ferus caballus).

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Pre-Islamic Arabia

Pre-Islamic Arabia, referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred to in Islam in the context of, highlighting the prevalence of paganism throughout the region at the time.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Pushkalavati

Pushkalavati, was the capital of the ancient region of Gāndhāra, situated in present day's Pakistan.

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Raisin

A raisin is a dried grape.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Saffron

Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus".

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Saurashtra (region)

Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.

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Schist

Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Silk Road are Eurasian history and trade routes.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Suvarnabhumi

(सुवर्णभूमि; Pali) is a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts such as the Mahavamsa, some of the Jataka tales, the Milinda Panha and the Ramayana.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Taxila

Taxila or Takshashila (Takṣaśilā; Takkasilā) is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan.

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Trapusa and Bahalika

Trapusa and Bahalika (alternatively Bhallika) are traditionally regarded as the first disciples of the Buddha.

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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula.

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Uttarapatha

Ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts use Uttarapatha as the name of the Northern part of Jambudvipa (equivalent of present-day North India), one of the "continents" in Hindu history. Dvārakā–Kamboja route and Uttarapatha are historic trails and roads in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvārakā–Kamboja_route

Also known as Dvaravati-Kamboja route, Kamboja Dvaravati route, Kamboja-Dvaravati Route, Kamboja-Dvaravati caravan route, Kamboja-Dvarvati Caravan Route.

, Jainism, Jetavanaramaya, Kabul, Kalyan, Kamboi, Kambojas, Kathiawar, Kubera, Lapis lazuli, Mahabharata, Mainland Southeast Asia, Maitraka dynasty, Middle East, Muziris, Myanmar, Nallasopara, Narmada River, Pakistan, Pali, Pamir Mountains, Pataliputra, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Persian Gulf, Petavatthu, Phoenicia, Pony, Pre-Islamic Arabia, Ptolemy, Pushkalavati, Raisin, Roman Empire, Rome, Saffron, Saurashtra (region), Schist, Silk Road, Silver, Sri Lanka, Suvarnabhumi, Tajikistan, Taxila, Trapusa and Bahalika, Turquoise, Uttarapatha, Vallabhi, Vasai, Walnut, Xuanzang, Yama, Yona, Zinc.

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See also

Eurasian history

Historic trails and roads in India

History of South Asia

History of transport in India

History of transport in Pakistan

References