Musiri of Tamil Nadu and The Musiris of Our Dream
Updated 24/04/24 While we have been digging for the ancient harbour of Musiris, we overlooked Musiri in our neighbourhood. Musiri has been there, for centuries on the northern bank of the river Cauvery. Taluk, district and panchayath town are only revenue divisions conceived by chieftains and leaders as village grows to town and so on, to address the pressure on them. Now Musiri has grown into an assembly constituency, and one among 245 assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu. Villages by the same name are found elsewhere in Thanjavur and Namakkal Districts of the state. Another Musri is in Andhra Pradesh: Visakhapatnam District, Dimbruguda Taluk, Arma Grama Panchayat. Again, Musri is a locality in Vellore town. Musri may be a corruption of the word misri by which the Arabs called the Egyptian agents in Alexandria who were the intermediaries in the Greco Roman spice trade spanning a period from 2nd century BCE to 5th century CE. The diary written by an unknown merchant 'Periplus o