The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c6.s3.t46.10

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If the name of *Sauvíra* was derived, as I suppose, from the prevalence of the Ber-tree, it is probable that it was only another appellation for the province of Badari, or Eder, at the head of the Gulf of Khambay. This, indeed, is the very position in which we should expect to find it, according to the ancient inscription of Rudra Dâma, which mentions *Sindhu-Sauvíra* immediately after *Surâshtra* and *Bhârukachha*, and just before *Kukura*, *Apâranta*, and *Nishada*.[^ *] According to this arrangement, *Sauvíra* must have been to the north of *Surâshtra* and Bhâroch, and to the south of *Nishada*, or just where I have placed it, in the neighbourhood of Mount Abu. Much the same