Summary
Colandia (Tamil pronunciation: [soɻɑːn̪d̪ɪjəm]; Tamil: சொழாந்தியம்) was a kind of vessel, that supposedly was used by Early Chola.[1][2] Chola used two varieties of vessels. The first kind, known as the Sangara, including vessels both large and small. The second variety, called Colandia, was very large and these types of vessels were used for voyages to the Ganges and the Chryse, which was the name of various places occurring in Ancient Greek geography. Also, the Chola had voyages from the ancient port of Puhar to the Pacific Islands.[3][4]
Another theory suggests that kolandiaphonta (also known as kolandiapha or kolandiapha onta)[5] was a transcription of the Chinese term Kun-lun po, which refers to an Indonesian vessel.[6] The Sangara is likely to have been derived from Indonesian twin-hulled vessels similar to Pacific catamarans.[7]: 27
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- ^ "Periplus mentions 3 ports in Tamil country of which kaveripatnam as center, as the places from which great ships which calls colondia sailed to pacific islands" – K.M.Panikkar in "geographical factors in indian history", ப-81.
- ^ [1] The Colandia type of vessels were employed for voyages between the Coramandel coast on the one hand and the Gangetic delta and Khryse
- ^ Two kind of vessels
- ^ Naval Warfare in ancient India by Prithwis Chandra Chakravarti
- ^ Coedès, George (1968). The Indianized States of South-East Asia. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 29, 273. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
- ^ Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics. Taipei: Caves Books Ltd. p. 459-460.
- ^ Dick-Read, Robert (July 2006). "Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa's most famous icons". The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa. 2: 23–45. doi:10.4102/td.v2i1.307.
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- Ancient history of India