It is on record that the Pearl Fishery was going on from the first century after Christian era.

One famous Greek Mariner by the year 80 A.D. went round the whole Arabian Sea from the mouth of the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal and wrote the details of this circumnavigation in a book known as Periplus Maris. This book describes the Paralia as starting south of Quilon and proceeding to the Korkai emporium through the Cape of Comarin. Continue reading Fr. Adrian Caussanel – on Paravas – 2 →