Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.19

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53. Beyond Calliena there are other market-towns of this region : Semylla (modern Chaul to the south of Bombay), Mandagora (probably Bankot on the mouth of the Sāvitrī), Palaepatmae (probaby modern Dabhoi), Melizigara (probably modern Jaygarh or Rajapur in the Ratnagiri coast), Byzantium (probably modern Vizadrog), Togarum (probably modern Deogarh) and Turannoboas (probably modern Malvan). Then there are the islands called Sesecrienae (probably the modern Vengurla Rocks) and that of the Aegidii (probably modern Goa) and that of the Caenitae (probably the modern Oyster Rocks), opposite the place called Chersonesus (probably modern Karwar)—and in these places there are pirates,—and after this the White Island (probably the modern Pigeon Island). Then come Naura (probably modern Cannanore) and Tyndis (probably modern Ponnani), the first markets of Damirica (Draviḍa), and then Muziris (modern Cranganore) and Nelcynda (near modern Kottayam), which are now of leading importance.