Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.169

c9.169

*Nāgasārikā*.—In the Surat plates of Karkkarāja Suvarṇavarṣa we find mention of Nāgasārikā (Navasārikā) which is modern Nausāri about 20 miles to the south of Surat (vide also *Ellora Plates of Dantidurga*, *E.I.*, XXV, January, 1939, p. 29; *E.I.*, XXI, Pt. III, July, 1931; *J.B.B.R.A.S.*, 26, 250). Nausāri is the headquarters town of the Nausāri division of the Baroda State where the copperplates of Śilāditya of the year 421 were discovered (*E.I.*, VIII, 229ff.). It is also known as Navarāṣṭra, the Noagramma of Ptolemy in the Broach district (cf. *Mahābhārata*, Sabhāparva, Ch. 31).