Indian Antiquary Vol 13

SR No.: 032505
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 492
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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DECEMBER, 1884.)
PTOLEMY'S GEOG. BK. VII, CH. 1, $$ 8487.
867
... 1190
........ 121°
God,' and Deopali may therefore perhape be | Kourellour ........
17° 30 Dévagadh, the two names having the same Pounnata, where is beryl ... 121° 20' 17° 90° meaning.
Aloe ............
.. 120° 20 17° Tabas 0:This would seem to be a city of the Tabasoi, already mentioned as a large community
Karoure, the royal seat of of Rrahman asceties.
Kêrobothros .................. 119° 16° 20 Hippokoura A town of this name has Arembour...........
16° 20 already been mentioned as a seaport to the south Bideris ............
119°
15° 50 of Simylla. This Hippokoura lay inland, and was | Pantipolis.............
150 20 the capital of the southern parts of Ariakó, Adarima .................... 119° 30' 15° 40' as Paithana was the capital of the north- Koreour
120° 15° ern, Its position is uncertain. Yule places it
87. Inland town of the Aïoi:doubtfully at Kalyan, a place about half a degree to the west of Bidar, and at some
Morounda........................ 121° 20' 14° 20' distance south from the river Masjira. Ptolemy The dominion of the sea appears to have 82calls it the capital of Baleokouros. Bhandarkar tisfied the ambition of the pirates, as they possessed conjectures this to have been the Viļiviyakura, on shore only a narrow strip of territory enclosed a name found upon two other Andhra coins dis- between the line of coast and the western declivi. covered at Kolhapur. There is no other clue ties of the Ghats. Their capital, Mousop alle, to its identification, but see Lassen, Ind. alt. Yule places at Miraj, a town near the Krishna, vol. III, pp. 179, 185.
but doubtfully. Their other town, Olokhoira, Sirimalaga may perhaps be Malkhôd, a is probably Khédå, a town in the district of town in Haidarabad, situated on a tributary of Ratnagiri in lat. 17° 4 long. 73° 30. As the Bhimâ, in lat. 17° 8' and long. 77° 12'. The Khê li is the name of several other places in this first part of the word Siri probably represents the part of the country, Olo, whatever it may mean, Sanskrit honorific prefix brf.
may have been in old times prefixed to this Kalligeris:-Perhaps Kanhagiri, & place particular Khôdd for the sake of distinction. about a degree to the south of Madgal.
Kouba --This is generally taken to be Modogoulla:-There can be little doubt Goa or Gova, the capital of the Portuguesa that this is Modgal, a town in the Haidarabad possessions in India, and there can be little doubt districts,-Lat. 16° 2', long. 76° 26',-N. W. of the correctness of the identification. The two from Balåri. Petirgala cannot be identified. towns Naroulla and Paloura, which Ptolemy
Bana ou asei:-This place is mentioned in places with Kouba to the west of the Pseudos. the Mahdvanso, in the Pali form Wanawisi, tomos, cannot be identified. To judge from his by which a city or district is designated. Bans- figures of longitude, Paloura lay 15' farther east vasei must beyond doubt have been the capital than Kouba, but as he makes the coast run eastof this country, and is identical with the modern ward instead of southward, it must be considered Banavisi, situated on the upper Varada, a tributary
to have lain south of Kouba. The name is Tamil of the Tungabhadra. Saint-Martin thinks that it and means, according to Caldwell (Introd. p. 104) was the city visited by Hinen Tsiang, and called Milk town.' It is remarkable, he observes, how by him Kon-kin-na-pn-lo, i.e., Konkanapura, but many names of places in Southern India mention. Cunningham is of opinion that both the bearing ed by Ptolemy end in oủp or oupa = 'a town. There and the distance point to Anagundi.
are 23 such places in all. 84. The inland cities of the Pirates are Pasage:-According to Yule's map this reprethese :
Bente Palsagi, the old name of a place now Olokhoira ........................114° 15°
called Halsi, south-east of Goa, from which it is Mousopalld, the metropolis ...115° 30' 15° 45'
distant somewhat under a degree. 85. Inland cities of Limyrikê, to the
Mastanour and Kourellour cannot be
identified. west of the Pseudostomos are these :
Pounnata has not yet been identified, Naroulla ...........................117° 45' 15° 50
though Ptolemy gives a sort of clue in stating Kouba..............................
..117° 15°
that it produced the beryl. Yule places it in his Paloura ..............................117° 51 14° 40'
map near Seringapatam. 86. Between the Pseudostomos and the Aloe:-This may be Yellapur, a small town in Baris, these cities :
North Canara, in lat. 14° 56' long. 74° 43'. Pasage ........................... 124° 50' 19° 50' Karoura:-"Karoura," says Caldwell, "is Mostanour
121° 30° 18° 40' I mentioned in Tamil traditions us the ancient