Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.240
Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.240
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*Karur or Karuvūr*.—It is a village of the Coimbatore district (*S.I.I.*, p. 126, f.n. 1). It is also called Vañji which was the old capital of the Chera kingdom. Ptolemy calls it Karur the capital of the prince of Kerala (Burnell, *South Indian Paleography*, 2nd ed., p. 33, note 2; *Z.D.M.G.*, Vol. XXXVII, p. 99; Hultzsch, *S.I.I.*, I, p. 106 f.n. 2). It is a town in the present Trichy district prominently mentioned in Tamil classics. According to Ptolemy, Karoura was the capital of Kerobothros, i.e., Keralaputra. Karūra means the black town (McCrindle, *Ancient India as described by Ptolemy*, S. N. Majumdar Ed., p. 182).