Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.127

c6.127

Barbarika (the Barbarei of Ptolemy).—It is evidently the Barbaricum or Barbaricon emporium mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. It was a market town and a port situated at the middle mouth of the Indus. It was one of the towns of the islands of the Indus delta (McCrindle’s Ancient India as described by Ptolemy, Ed. Majumdar, p. 148).