भरूच बंदरगाह,गुजरात: क्षहरात(खरात) वंश के पश्चिमी क्षत्रप(शक) साम्राज्य का अंतरराष्ट्रीय केंद्र.
भरूच बंदरगाह,गुजरात: क्षहरात(खरात) वंश के पश्चिमी क्षत्रप(शक) साम्राज्य का अंतरराष्ट्रीय केंद्र. महाक्षत्रप नहपान का विश्व के व्यापार में योगदान. Barigaza Harbor
(Bharuch,Gujrath,India):Center of international trade during western satrapa
reign. (Contribution of Mahakshatrap Nahapana in worlds trade).
Nahapana became a
very powerful ruler of Western satrap dynasty.
He occupied portions
of the Satavahana empire in western and central India. Nahapana held sway over
Malwa, Southern Gujarat, and Northern Konkan, from
Broach to Sopara and the Nasik and Poona districts.His son-in-law, the Saka
Ushavadata (married to his daughter Dakshamitra), is known from inscriptions in
Nasik and Karle to have been viceroy of Nahapana, ruling over the southern part
of his territory.
Nahapana is
mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea under the name Nambanus, as
ruler of the area around Barigaza(Baruch,Gujrath):
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"Beyond the gulf of Baraca(Gulf of Kachha) is that of Barygaza(Bharuch) and the coast of the country of Ariaca(Konkan), which is the beginning of the Kingdom of Nambanus(Nahpana) and of all India. That part of it lying inland and adjoining Scythia is called Abiria(Sindh Prant), but the coast is called Syrastrene. It is a fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom, of the coarser sorts. Very many cattle are pastured there, and the men are of great stature and black in color. The metropolis of this country is Minnagara(Karachi), from which much cotton cloth is brought down to Barygaza."
—Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap. 41
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"Beyond the gulf of Baraca(Gulf of Kachha) is that of Barygaza(Bharuch) and the coast of the country of Ariaca(Konkan), which is the beginning of the Kingdom of Nambanus(Nahpana) and of all India. That part of it lying inland and adjoining Scythia is called Abiria(Sindh Prant), but the coast is called Syrastrene. It is a fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom, of the coarser sorts. Very many cattle are pastured there, and the men are of great stature and black in color. The metropolis of this country is Minnagara(Karachi), from which much cotton cloth is brought down to Barygaza."
—Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap. 41
Under the Western
Satraps, Barigaza(Bharuch) was one of the main centers of Roman trade with
India. The Periplus describes the many goods exchanged:
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