The Geography of the Puranas c7.s4.76

c7.s4.76

According to Wilford,¹ 'The name still persists in Placia, a town in Mysia, the inhabitants of which, with those in Scylace, had a peculiar language, which was the same with that spoken by the Pelasgi of Cristone or Crotone, about Tyrrhanians in Italy, and by the Pelasgi, who lived on the shores of the Hellespont, according to Herodotus. Thus the denomination of Plakṣa or Palengṣa seems to be the same with Placia and Pelagsia and the Pelasgi came originally from the lesser Asia'. The view is also supported by V. V. Iyer² who identifies Plakṣa dvīpa with Greece and adjoining lands.