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 edict and give up all their booty, which was afterwards distributed among the merchants robbed.

We have now narrated some of the facts in the sea-borne trade of India from the earliest times recorded to the glorious epoch of the Mauryas, seeking humbly to unroll the ample pages of one of the many forgotten but brilliant chapters in the early history of our country.