Golden era of Chera dynasty

Today we are going to show some light on history from early Cheras. Cheras one of the powerful Kingdom of South India who ruled the sub continent from Himalayas to Kaniyakumari. The trade flourished between Europeans and Cheras during Roman Empire. Mucuri (Sangam) or Mucuripattanam  (Ramayana) or Muyirikottu (Jewish copper plates) or Muzuris (Indo - Roman) was a port on the west side of South India. Where trade happened for gold, pepper, tiger, slaves and clothes. The people who came from Greece or Rome were identified as Yavanas or Yavanar. 

    How do these people from Europe travel to West cost of South India? This is a time called Hippalus (South-west monsoon) blows on the Arabian sea. Myos hormos a port in current Africa or old Roman Empire starts their journey to Muzuris to trade pepper. This is foreign market of those time. However the Greeks do not know Chinese or South east Asians directly. They exchanged goods through traders in South India.

    There were many archeological evidences found in this region in the means of coins (Julius Caesar coins in thiruppur) and pottery. Kodumanal is in current thiruppur of Tamilnadu which is near to Mucuri through the palakkad gap of western ghats. City that clothed Rome. 

The great Tamil epic Cilappatikaram (The Story of the Anklet) written by Ilango Adigal, a Jain poet-prince from Kodungallur (Muziris) during the 2nd century A.D., described Muziris as a place where Greek traders would arrive in their ships to barter their gold to buy pepper and since barter trade is time-consuming, they lived in homes living a lifestyle that he termed as "exotic" and a source of "local wonder". 

    Three Tamil-Brahmi scripts were also found in the Pattanam excavations. The last Tamil-Brahmi script (dated to c. 2nd century AD, probably reading "a-ma-na", meaning "a Jaina" in Tamil) was found on a pot-rim at Pattanam. If the rendering and the meaning is not mistaken, it establishes that Jainism was prevalent on the Malabar Coast at least from the 2nd century. 

    There were proofs that west believed earth was flat and we know the story of Galileo and after 350 years Vatican agreed that Galileo was right. Heliocentric theory came later into Greeks because those were taught to them. Yavanajataka, first form of current jathakam were in Sanskrit and that's the one of the reason why Sanskrit is considered as Indo-Aryan languages by many in Dravidian culture.

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