PODO´CA
PODO´CA (
Ποδώκη or
Πουδώκη, Ptol 7.1.14;
Ποδούκη, Peripl. Mar. Erythr. 100.60), a place near the coast of
Malabar, not far from the
Cávery river.
According to Bohlen (
Ind. vol. i. p. 26), the name is a corruption of
Podukeri (the new town), (Comp. also Ritter, vol. v. p. 516.)
It is not unlikely that the name has been preserved in the
[p. 2.643] present
Pondickerry (written in the Tamil language
Puduchchery). Ptolemy mentions another place of the same name in the northern part of the island of Taprobane (7.4.10).
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