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Malayagiri; Jain commentator (12th)
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Taken from; Gode, PK (1949a) - History of ambergris in India - Between about AD 700 and 1900, Chymia Vol 2, 51-56;

He mentions a perfume or aromatic ingredient of the name ambara along with aguru (aloe-wood or agallochum) karpura (camphor) etc… burnt as incense.

(Ambara; Arab word for Ambergris. In Sanskriet it means sky. This text gives evidence that the Arabs were importing Ambergris from Arabia and East Africa + Aloes from Socotra into India)