Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.17

c8.s1.17

51. Among the market-towns of Dachinabades there are two of special importance ; Paethana (Pratiṣṭhāna, modern Paithan in the Aurangabad District), distant about twenty days’ journey south from Barygaza ; beyond which, about ten days’ journey east, there is another very great city, Tagara (modern Ter in the Osmanabad District). There are brought down to Barygaza from these places by wagons and through great tracts without roads, from Paethana carnelian in great quantity, and from Tagara much common cloth, all kinds of muslins and mallow cloth, and other merchandise brought there locally from the regions along the sea-coast. And the whole course to the end of Damirica is seven thousand stadia ; but the distance is greater to the Coast Country.