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and reached the country of Su-la-ch'a (Saurash- Dounga ............ ...........111° 30' 15° tra) that was subject to the kingdom of Valabbi. Mouth of the River Benda ...110° 30 15 See Tarikh-i-Sorath, edited by Dr. Burgess, pp. 33- Simylla, a mart and a cape...110° 14° 45' 199.
Hippokoura ..................... 111° 45' 14° 10' Monoglosson.-This is now represented by
Baltipatna .......... ...........110° 30 Mangrol, a port on the S. W. coast of the Penin.
14° 20'
Åriak ê corresponds nearly to Maharashtragula below Navi-bandar. It is a very populous
the country of the Marathas. It may have been place, with a considerable traffic, and is tributary
so called, because its inhabitants being chiefly to Junagadh.
Aryans and ruled by Indian princes were there4. In Larikê.
by distinguished from their neighbours, who Mouth of the River MÔphis...1 14° 18° 20'
were either of different descent or subject to Pakidare, a village ............113° 17° 50
foreign domination. The territory was in PtoCape Male8 .....................111° 17° 30
lemy's time divided among three potentates, one 5. In the Gulf of Baryg & za.
of whom belonged to the dynasty of the SadiKamanê.........................112° 17° neis and ruled the prosperous trading commu. Mouth of the River Namados 112° 17° 45, nities that occupied the seaboard. This dynasty Nausarips ........ ..........112° 30' 16° 30' is mentioned in the Periplús (cap. 52) whence
we learn that Sandanes after having made Poulipoula........................112 ............112° 30' 16°
himself master of Kalliena (now Kalyana), which Larik 8, according to Lassen, represents the
had formerly belonged to the house of SaraSansk. Rashtrika in its Prakrit form Laţik &. ganes the elder, subjected its trade to the severest LAr-desa, however, the country of Lar (Sansk.
restrictions, so that if Greek vessels entered its Lata) was the ancient naine of the territory
port even accidentally, they were seized and sent of Gujarkt, and the northern parts of Konkan, under guard to Barygaza, the seat evidently of and Larik 8 may therefore be a formation from the paramount authority. Sadanes, according to Lar with the Greek termination iks appended. The Lassen, corresponds to the Sanskrit word Sadtwo great cities of Barygaza (Bharoch) and Ozône
hana, which means completion or a perfecter, (Ujjain) were in Larikê, which appears to have been and also an agent or representative. By Saraganes a political rather than a geographical division. is probably indicated one of the great Satakarņi or Male ô must have been a projection of the
Andhra dynasty. The Peripids makes Ariake to land somewhere between the mouth of the Mahi
be the beginning of the kingdom of Mambares and that of Narmada-but nearer to the former if Ptolemy's indication be correct.
Soupara has been satisfactorily identified The Gulf of Barygaza, now the Gulf of
by Dr. Burgess with Supära, & place about 6 Khambhat, was so called from the great com. miles to the north of Vasai (Bassein). It appears mercial emporium of the same name (now Bha
to have been from very early times an important roch) on the estuary of the Narmada at a distance
centre of trade, and it was perhaps the capital of of about 300 stadia from the Gulf. This river is
the district that lay around it. Among its ruins called the Namados or Namades by Ptolemy and
have been preserved some monuments, which are the Namnadios by the Author of the Periplús,
of historical interest, and which also attest its who gives a vivid account of the difficulties attend.
high antiquity. These are a fragment of a block ing the navigation of the gulf and of the estuary
of basalt like the rocks of Girnår, inscribed with which was subject to bores of great frequency edicts of Aboka, and an old Buddhist Stapa. and violence.
The name of Supâra figures conspicuously in the Kamand is mentioned as Kammônê in the
many learned and elaborate treatises which were Peripide, where it is located to the south of the
evoked in the course of the famous controversy Narmada estuary. Ptolemy probably erre in
regarding the situation of Ophir to which Solomon placing it to northward of it.
despatched the ships he had hired from the Nausaripa has been identified with Nau.
Tyrians. There can now be little doubt that if sari, a place near the coast, about 18 miles south
Ophir did not mean India itself it designated from Sarat.
some place in India, and probably Supära, which Poulipoula is in Yule's map located at
lay on that part of the coast to which the traders Sanjan, which is on the coast south from Nausari.
of the west, who took advantage of the monsoon It was perhaps nearer Balsar.
to cross the ocean, would naturally direct their 6. Ariak 6. Sa din ôn.
course. The name moreover of Supára is almost Soapara ....... ..............112° 30 150 30
identical with that of Ophir when it assumes, as Mouth of the River Goaris ...112° 15' 15' 10 | it often does, an initial S, becoming Sophara as in
ind of all In
