"At dawn, the new vehicle is employed. With four yokes, three whips, seven rays and ten oars, human and winning the li…"

"The Indian Ocean had from time immemorial been the scene of intense commercial trade. Indian ships had from the begin…"

"Come with the ship of our thoughts to take us to the other shore, Ashwins, employ your vehicle. Your oar that is as w…"

"Pushan, your ships that are within the sea, golden in the atmosphere which travel, by them you go on the embassy of t…"

"The evidence for the Vedic Indians’ familiarity with sea and maritime navigation is so varied and so overwhelming tha…"

"The Indian ships are much bigger than ours. Their bases are made of three boards .. [they] face formidable storms."

"Commerce on the sea is monopolized by the British even more than transport on land. The Hindus are not permitted to o…"

"Or their ships, for that matter. In the middle of the eighteenth century, John Grose noted that at Surat the Indian s…"

"The rich build ships in which they carry on commerce with foreign nations."

"Those who do not have the power to ascend the sacrificial ship trembling fall into calamity (X.44.6).44"