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³ McCrindle's Periplus, 115. The author of the Periplus calls the capital of Surastrene Minagara. Pandit Bhagvanlāl believed Minagara to be a miswriting of Girinagara the form used for Girnār both in Rudradāman's (A.D. 150) rock inscription at Girnār (Fleet's Corpus Ins. Ind. III. 57) and by Varāha-Mihira (A.D. 570) (Brihat-Samhita, XIV. 11). The mention of a Minagara in Ptolemy inland from Sorath and Menoglassura or Mangrul suggests that either Girnār or Junāgadh was also known as Minagara either after the Mins or after Men that is Menander. At the same time it is possible that Ptolemy's Agrinagara though much out of place may be Girinagara and that Ptolemy's Minagara in the direction of Ujjain may be Mandasor.