Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.8

c8.s1.8

43. This gulf is very narrow to Barygaza and very hard to navigate for those coming from the ocean; this is the case with both the right and left passages ; but there is a better passage through the left. For on the right at the very mouth of the gulf there lies a shoal, long and narrow, and full of rocks, called Herone, facing the village of Cammoni ; and opposite this on the left projects the promontory that lies before Astacampra, which is callcd Papica, and is a bad anchorage because of the strong current setting in around it and because the anchors are cut off, the bottom being rough and rocky. And even if the entrance to the gulf is made safely, the mouth of the river at Barygaza is found with difficulty because the shore is very low and cannot be made out untill you are close upon it. And when you have found it the passage is difficult because of the shoals at the mouth of the river.