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 living north of the author's home, the Dravidian districts. The forbidden practices mentioned in the same Sutra as customary among the Northerners, such as the traffic in wool and in animals with two rows of teeth (horses, mules, etc.), leave no doubt that the inhabitants of Western and North-Western India are meant. It follows as a matter of course that their trade was carried on with Western Asia. The same author, ''Dh. S.'' i. 18. 14, and Gautama, x. 33, fix also the duties payable by ship-owners to the king." The later Smṛitis also contain explicit references to sea-borne trade. Manu (iii. 158) declares a Brahman who has gone to sea to be unworthy of entertainment at a Srāddha. In chapter viii. again of Manu's Code there is an interesting sloka laying down the law that the rate