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8 তমলুকের ইতিহাস । tra-aaaaaaaaa-Maaaaaaaaa self on board a great merchant vessel which he found in the harbour of Tamluk, and putting to sea, they proceeded in a south-westerly direction, and catching the first fair wind of the winter season (i.e. of the N. E. monsoon), they sailed for fourteen days and nights, and arrived at Ceylon. Two hundred and fifty years later, a yet more celebrated pilgrim from China speaks of Tamluk as still an important Buddhist harbour, with ten Buddhist monasteries, a thousand monks, and a pillar by Asoka 200 feet high. It was "situated on a bay, could be approached both by land and water, and contained stores of rare and precious merchandise and and a wealthy population." And another Chinese traveller, I-Tsing, who followed Hiuen Tsang, thus wrote of the Bengal port: "Tamalipti is forty yojanas south from the eastern limit of India. There are five or six monasteries; the people are rich................ This is the place where we embarked when returning to China..' . তাম্রলিপ্তবাসীরা যে প্ৰাচ্যদেশে সমুদ্রে যাতায়াত করিতেন, তাহার as it in its at it Indian Shipping 2C-T's 3rtis সমুদ্ৰ-যাত্রা ও উপনিবেশ-স্থাপনের বিবরণ লিপিবদ্ধ করিয়াছেন। প্রাচীন বাঙ্গালার তাম্রলিপ্তবাসীরা যে সেই সমুদ্ৰ-যাত্রায় অগ্ৰণী ছিলেন, তাহার -ས་བསྙལ་བ་ས་ I Takakusu's I-Tsing, xxxiii..., xxxiv,