The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.36

c5.s5.36

Gauri—The river Panjkora (the Guraios or Guraeus of the Greeks) which unites with the river Swat to form the Landoi, an affluent of the Kabul river [Mbh, Bk VI, Alexander s Exploits on the Western Banks of the Indus, by M A Court in JASB (1839), p 307, and McCrindle's Invasion of India, p 66] The Panjkora rising in Gilghit, flows between the Khonar (Choes of Arrian, called also Khameh) and the Swat [JASB (1839), p 306] Panjkora is evidently a corruption of Panchagauda from the name of a town of that name situated on the bank of this river [JASB (1852), p 215] See Pancha karpata