800-year-old “trader’s inscription” – An 800-year-old “trader’s inscription” was found in a field in the Andar Kottaram area near Papakkudi, Madurai in Tamil Nadu. The regional citizens call this stone “Muniyan Stone”. Out of a total of 47 lines in it, the first 6 lines “tell the true glory of merchants in Sanskrit in the Grantha script”.
- The stone also mentions ‘Samasta Bhuvana Charya Pancha Satavirasanam’.
- As per the researchers, this means the charter given by the merchant group called “Innutruvar”.