The '''Arabian Sea''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: بحر العرب; [[Romanization of Arabic|transliterated]]: Bahr al-'Arab) is a region of the [[Indian Ocean]] bounded on the east by [[India]], on the north by [[Pakistan]] and [[Iran]], on the west by [[Arabian Peninsula]], on the south, approximately, by a line between [[Cape Guardafui]], the north-east point of [[Somalia]], [[Socotra]] and [[Kanyakumari]] (Cape Comorin) in [[India]].
==Description==
It was known as the ''Sindhu Sagar'' to Indians in the [[Vedic period]] of their history, and an important [[marine]] [[trade route]] in the era of the ''coastal sailing vessels'' from possibly as early as the [[3rd millennium BCE]], certainly the late [[2nd millennium BCE]] through the latter days known as the [[Age of Sail]]. By the time of [[Julius Caesar]], several well-established combined land-sea trade routes depended upon [[water transport]] through the Sea around the rough inland [[terrain feature]]s to its north.