"The maritime intercourse of India and China dates from a much earlier period, from about 680 B.C..... they arrived in vessels having prows shaped like the heads of birds or animals after the pattern specified in the Yukti Kalpataru (an ancient Sanskrit technological text) and exemplified in the ships and boats of old Indian arts."
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Professor G. Phillips on page 585 in the 1965 edition of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. attributed at
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