to Tropina 1225;[1] to the cape of Perimula,[2] where there is the greatest emporium of trade in India, 750 miles; to the town in the island of Patala mentioned above, 620 miles.
The hill-tribes between the Indus and the Iomanes are the Cesi; the Cetriboni, who live in the woods; then the Megallæ, whose king is master of five hundred elephants and an army of horse and foot of unknown strength; the Chrysei, the Parasange, and the Asangæ,[3] where tigers abound, noted for their ferocity. The force under arms consists of 30,000 foot, 300 elephants, and 800 horse. These are shut in by the Indus, and are surrounded by a circle of mountains and deserts
- ↑ [Tropina answers to Tripontari or Tirupanatara, opposite Kochin.—Ed. Ind. Ant.] The distance given is measured from the mouth of the Ganges, and not from Cape Calingon.
- ↑ This cape is a projecting point of the island of Perimula or Perimuda, now called the island of Salsette, near Bombay.
- ↑ v.l. Asmagi. The Asange, as placed doubtfully by Lassen about Jodhpur.—Ed. Ind. Ant.
mouth of the Godâvari river. The town of Dandaguda or Dandagula I take to be the Dântapura of the Buddhist chronicles, which as the capital of Kalinga may with much probability be identified with Râja Mahendri, which is only 30 miles to the north-east of Coringa. From the great similarity of the Greek Γ and Π, I think it not improbable that the Greek name may have been Dandapula, which is almost the same as Dântapura. But in this case the Dânta or 'tooth-relic' of Buddha must have been enshrined in Kalinga as early as the time of Pliny, which is confirmed by the statement of the Buddhist chronicles that the " left canine tooth' of Buddha was brought to Kalinga immediately after his death, where it was enshrined by the reigning sovereign, Brahmadatta."—Cunningham, Geog. p. 518.
