High Middle Ages · South Asia · Exploration
1293
Marco Polo visits Pandya and Sri Lanka
1293
The Venetian traveler, homeward bound from China, stopped in the Pandya kingdom and Sri Lanka. He marveled at the pearl fishery in the Gulf of Mannar, the nakedness of the king's courtiers, and a ruby he claimed was as large as a man's arm. His accounts are our best outside sources.
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