The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s8.18

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Kudūra is identical with the Koudoura of Ptolemy. It is known to have been the headquarters of a district under the Bṛihatphalāyanas and the Śālaṅkāyanas, and possibly also under the Eastern Chālukyas, and is represented by the village Kuḍūru which is four miles from Masulipatam and six miles from Ganthasāla, the Kontakossyla ‘mart’ of Ptolemy, close to the mouth of the Maisolos or the Kṛiṣhṇā.¹ Not far from this mart lay the apheterion, the point of departure of ships bound for Khryse (Suvarṇabhūmi, Lower Burma and the Malay Islands).