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the capital with the well-known seaport town of Bhâroch, under its Sanskrit name of Bhrigu-Kachha, as written by the Brahmans, or Bhârukachha, as found in the old inscriptions. The latter was no doubt the more usual form, as it is almost literally preserved in the Βαρύγαζα of Ptolemy, and the ‘Periplus.’ From Hwen Thsang’s measurement of its circuit, the limits of the district may be determined approximately as extending from the Máhi* river on the north, to Dâmân on the south, and from the Gulf of Khambay on the west to the Sahyádri mountains on the east.