Complex sentence: Indian traders regularly visit ports in Arabia, explaining the prevalence of place names in the region with Indian or Buddhist origin; e.g., "bahar" (from the Sanskrit "vihara", a Buddhist monastery).
Split into simpler sentences: Indian traders regularly visited ports in Arabia, explaining the prevalence of place names in the region with Indian or Buddhist origin. For example, "bahar" (from the Sanskrit "vihara", a Buddhist monastery).