We come next to +Naoura+ in Dimurikê. This is now +Honâvar+, written otherwise Onore, situated on the estuary of a broad river, the +Śarâvatî+, on which are the falls of Gêrsappa, one of the most magnificent and stupendous cataracts in the world. If the +Nitra+ of Ptolemy (VII. i. 7) and the +Nitria+ of Pliny be the same as +Naoura+, then these authors extend the pirate coast a little further south than the _Periplûs_ does. But if they do not, and therefore agree in their views as to where Dimurikê begins, the +Nitra+ may be placed, Müller thinks, at Mirjan or Komta, which is not far north from Honâvar. [Yule places it at Mangalur.] Müller regards the first supposition however as the more probable, and quotes at length a passage from Pliny (VI. xxvi. 104) referring thereto, which must have been excerpted from some _Periplûs_ like our author’s, but not from it as some have thought. “To those bound for India it is most convenient to depart from Okêlis. They sail thence with the wind Hipalus in 40 days to the first emporium of India, Muziris, which is not a desirable place to arrive at on account of pirates infesting the neighbourhood, who hold a place called +Nitrias+, while it is not well supplied with merchandize. Besides, the station for ships is at a great distance from the shore, and cargoes have both to be landed and to be shipped by means of little boats. There reigned there when I wrote this +Caelobothras+. Another port belonging to the nation is more convenient, +Neacyndon+, which is called +Becare+ (_sic. codd._, Barace, Harduin and Sillig). There reigned Pandiôn in an inland town far distant from the emporium called +Modura+. The region, however, from which they convey pepper to Becare in boats formed from single logs is +Cottonara+.”
54. To the kingdom under the sway of +Kêprobotres[22] Tundis+ is subject, a village of great note situate near the sea. +Mouziris+, which pertains to the same realm, is a city at the height of prosperity, frequented as it is by ships from +Ariakê+ and Greek ships _from Egypt_. It lies near a river at a distance from Tundis of 500 stadia, whether this is measured from river to river or by the length of the sea voyage, and it is 20 stadia distant from the mouth of its own river. The distance of +Nelkunda+ from +Mouziris+ also nearly 500 stadia, whether measured from river to river or by the sea voyage, but it belongs to a different kingdom, that of +Pandiôn+. It likewise is situate near a river and at about a distance from the sea of 120 stadia.