Sailing Around Erethraean Sea: Sixty Five

Every year on the boarders of  Thina there turns up a certain tribe, short in body and very flat faced called Sesatai. They come with their wives and children bearing great packs resembling mats of green leaves and then remain at some spot on the boarder between them and those on the Thina side, and they hold a festival for several days, spreading out their mats under them, and then take off for their own homes in the interior. The locals, counting on this, then turn up in the area, collect what the Sesatai had spread out, extract fibers from the reeds, which are called petroi, and lightly rubbing over the leaves, and rolling them into ball like shapes, they string them on on the fibers from the reeds. There are three grades: what is called big ball malabathrum from the bigger leaves, medium ball malabathrum from the lesser leaves; and small ball malabathrum from the smaller. Thus three grades of malabathrum are produced, and then they are transported into India, by the people who make them.

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The last two sections, I have depended on what is called Frisk's text.
1. Sesatai. In Wilfred H Scoff's, Besata. Sesatai is a Koine Greek adaptation of Sanskrit word Kiratai. According to Sylvain Levi ( 1863 to 1935), the French orientalist, and Indologist, it is a term used by the Vedic people of Gangetic plains to designate the Tibeto-Burman speaking group of The Northeast. Kings and later politicians drwa lines between kingdoms and nations, but people ignore them.

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