- The
earliest reference occurs in
Mahabharata as Shuparak. The
Buddhist Suppara Jataka,
believed to be of the 6th
century BC,
talks of
Sopara as a prosperous...
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Paethana (Paithan), Palaepatmae, Palaesimundu, Poduca, Semylla, Sopatma,
Suppara (Nalasopara), Tagara, Tymdis. ****stan – Barbari****, Peshawer, Taxilla...
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Ptolemy further describes Ariaca as
being composed of the
cities of
Suppara (Sopara), Dunga,
Symilla emporium (Chaul), Balepatna,
Hippocura (the seat...
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named for
coconuts (Kerala). This
suggests seafarers from
Bharukaccha and
Suppara visited the Maldives, and that
Gujaratis settled there in pre-Buddhist...