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'''Colandia''' ({{lang-ta|சொழாந்தியம்}}) also '''kolandiapha, kolandiapha onta''', or '''kolandiaphonta'''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Coedès|first=George|title=The Indianized States of South-East Asia|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1968|isbn=9780824803681}}</ref> was a kind of vessel, which was used by [[Early Chola]].<ref>"'''Periplus''' mentions 3 ports in Tamil country of which kaveripatnam as center, as the places from which great ships which calls '''colondia''' sailed to pacific islands" - K.M.Panikkar in "geographical factors in indian history", ப-81.</ref><ref>[http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&q=colandia&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2238l6956l0l7953l8l8l0l0l0l0l1362l1362l7-1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=e120df0eaafdebbc&biw=1366&bih=646] ''The Colandia type of vessels were employed for voyages between the Coramandel coast on the one hand and the Gangetic delta and Khryse''</ref> Chola used two varieties of vessels. The first kind, known as the Sangara, including vessels both large and small. The second variety, called Colandia, were very large in size and these types of vessels were used for voyages to the [[Ganges]] and the [[Chryse (ancient Greek placename)|Chryse]], which was the name of various places occurring in ancient Greek geography. Also, the Chola had voyages from the ancient port [[Puhar, Nagapattinam|Puhar]] to [[Pacific Islands]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iDVuAAAAMAAJ&q=colandia&dq=colandia&hl=en&ei=lY2iTuL2DITQiALLwuVT&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ Two kind of vessels]</ref><ref>[http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/cha.htm Naval Warfare in ancient India by Prithwis Chandra Chakravarti]</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Borobudur ship]]
* [[Junk (ship)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101128040214/http://www.indianarmy-arichhistory.com/ancienthistory.htm Ancient history of India]
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