Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.333

c10.333

Ptolemy speaks of the Nanagounas river which must be the Tāptī. The name Nanagounas cannot be traced in the Indian sources. Ptolemy in course of his coastal description locates the mouth of this river at the same altitude as the modern town of Sopārā (Souppārā), some 33 miles north of Bombay at a great distance from the actual mouth of the Tāptī. Ptolemy locates the sources of the Nanagounas in the eastern part of the Vindhya. The Tāptī does not rise in the Vindhya (J. Ph. Vogel, Notes on Ptolemy, B.S.O.A.S., XIV, Pt. I, p. 84).