Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.s2.t1.99
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.s2.t1.99
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Sindabúr or Sindápur. Al Masúdi (A.D. 943) places Sindápur he writes it Sindábúr or Goa in the country of the Bughara (Balhára) in India.⁶ Al Bírúni (A.D. 1021) places Sindápur or Sindábúr that is Goa as the first of coast towns in Malabar the next being Fáknúr.⁷ Al Idrisi (end of the eleventh century) describes Sindábúr as a commercial town with fine buildings and rich bazaars in a great gulf where ships cast anchor, four days along the coast⁸ from Thána.