Calicut Port and coastal areas

 

 

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Calicut Port and coastal areas

Calicut Port and coastal areas . Ibn Batuta came to India through Afghanistan and reached Delhi . From Delhi he was travelling to to calicut on an assignment of king Tuqlaq of Delhi. The path he followed was Delhi, Cambay(Gujarat),Goa,Hinawar, Fakanur,Mangalore,Hili,Kannur,Thalassery,Budfattan,Koyilandi and Calicut.

Small small ports and jetties across the Chaliyar river that joins the Arabian Sea

The place Shaliyat in Calicut

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Ibn Battuta re-travels the route to Qaliqut, and hears of the fate of his lost possessions (1342-3) [ رحلة ابن بطوطة الى الهند ]

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I stayed with him at Sandabur from the day of its capture, which was the 13th of Jumada I, until the middle of Sha‘ban;(1) I then asked him for permission to travel and he made me promise to return to him. So I sailed (109) to Hinawr, continued thence to Fakanur, Manjarur, Hili, Jurfattan, Dahfattan, Budfattan, Fandarayna and Qaliqut — all of which places have been mentioned above — and finally to al-Shaliyat, a most beautiful town, in which the fabrics called by its name are [821] manufactured.(2) After a long stay in this town I returned to Qaliqut. Two slaves who had been with me on the kakam arrived at Qaliqut and told me that the slave-girl who had been pregnant, and on whose account I was much upset, had died, and that the ruler of Jawa had taken the rest of my slave-girls, that my goods had been seized by various hands, and that my companions were scattered to China, Jawa and Bengal. On hearing this I returned to Hinawr and thence to Sandabur, reaching it at the end of Muharram, and I stayed there until the 2nd of Rabi‘II.(3)

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)1) I.e. from 15 October 1342 to mid January 1343.

 

(2) Chaliyam, opposite Beypur on the south side of the river of that name. Many fabrics of different kinds were made there, and there are many kinds with names recalling the place, but their precise identity has not been established (Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Chalia, and Mzik, p. 314, n. 102).

 

(3) I.e. from 24 June to 24 August 1343. These dates cannot be reconciled with his statement (below, p. 846) that he left the Maldives on 26 August 1344.