Ariaca
Ariaca (
Barigaza, mentioned in ancient geographical sources, usually associated with the Western Satraps
.
According to the
41. "Beyond the
Syrastrene. It is a fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom, of the coarser sorts. Very many cattle are pastured there, and the men are of great stature and black in color. The metropolis of this country is Minnagara, from which much cotton cloth is brought down to Barygaza."— Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap. 41 [2]
Sopara), Dunga, Symilla emporium (Chaul), Balepatna, Hippocura (the seat of the palace of a king, whom Ptolemy calls Baleocarus), ending before the city of Mandagora.[3]