Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s1.t2.4

c14.s1.t2.4

“The largest city in India, named Palimbothra, is in the land of the Prasians, where is the confluence of the river Erannobaos² and the Ganges, which is the greatest of rivers. The Erannobaos would be third of the Indian rivers . . . . . Megasthenes says that on the side where it is longest this city extends 80 stades (9½ miles) in length, and that its breadth is fifteen (1¾ miles); that the city has been surrounded with a ditch in breadth 6 plethra (606 feet), and in depth 30 cubits; and that its wall has 570 towers and 64 gates.”³