The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c8.s4.50

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With regard to the king's name, I think that the Greek Bassaro-naga may be identified with the Pali Majeri-ka-Nága of the ‘Mahâwanso.’* Remembering the frequent interchange of the labials m and b, and that ka is an optional affix, the Greek Bassaro may be accepted as a tolerably close rendering of the Pali Majeri; and thus Ptolemy's Malanga would become the capital of the Nágas of Majerika.