Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.86

c8.86

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| | | | | # CHAPTER III—(Contd.) |
| | | | | in Gujarāt Province at the head of the gulf of Cambay—*Ibid*, pp. 565 *ff*. On the other hand Paurāṇic evidence is clear in locating Sovīra just adjoining Sindha and between the Indus and the Jhelum. Moreover, we have the support of that keen observer Alberuni, who places Sauvīra in Multān and Jāhrāwār. (Sachau, *Alberuni* I, pp. 298, 300.) |
| | | | | Sauvīra, again, has been considered as one among the various places that can lay claim to be identical with the Ophir of Solomon's voyages. In fact, as it seems to us, Sauvīra—Sovīra—has more than any other—Suppāra for instance—the nearest approach, on phonological grounds, |