Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.300

c7.300

Korakai.—Its Sanskritised form is Korgāra in the Tinnevelly district, the ancient capital of the Pāṇḍyas (*S.I.I.*, I, p. 168). It is generally spelt in Tamil classics as Korkai. It was a flourishing seaport (V. R. R. Dikshitar, *Pre-Historic South India*, p. 31).